Football
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The Phryges and the Phrygian Cap: An Introduction Watch this video and you’ll see it opens with a painting: La Liberté guidant le peuple (Liberty leading the People) by Eugene Delacroix. A commemoration of the French Revolution of July 1830, the overthrowing of Charles X. Specifically, the video zooms into the head covering sported by
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Dear Reader, If you come to follow this website and my writing, you will quickly learn that I am a massive football fan. A fan of playing football. A fan of watching football. A fan of talking about the football I’ve played and watched. It feels fitting, therefore, that my opening musing should be about
The Pop Classicist 