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Ancient and modern

What Gary Lineker could learn from Herodotus

26 November 2022

9:00 AM

26 November 2022

9:00 AM

Gary Lineker has unfolded his thoughts on the World Cup in Qatar (Romans called them Catharrei). ‘It’s a delicate balance between “sports-washing” and trying to make change,’ he intoned. Actually, the issue is quite different. Let Herodotus (5th C bc), the first western historian and a man of inexhaustible curiosity and vitality, put you right.

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