Peter Jones

While shepherds watched, civilisation was born

If you want to understand the worlds of Homer and the Bible, you must start with farming

issue 14 December 2013

‘And lo, there were shepherds in the fields, watching over their flocks by night
 
Reading recently that it was the 25th anniversary of the invention of the world wide web, I reflected (yet again) on the difficulty of creating in any of our minds that sense of the world as experienced by the Greeks and Romans.

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