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Ancient and modern

He who will be obeyed

18 February 2023

9:00 AM

18 February 2023

9:00 AM

If Dominic Raab has been bullying, he must think it was to his advantage. Agamemnon, leader of the Greek expedition to Troy, thought so too. At the beginning of Homer’s Iliad, he brutally dismissed the old priest of Apollo who had offered a huge ransom for the return of his daughter.

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