LONDON (REUTERS) - Britain's incoming prime minister once boasted he could recite from heart the first hundred lines of Homer's Iliad in ancient Greek.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Britain's incoming prime minister once boasted he could recite from heart the first hundred lines of Homer's Iliad in ancient Greek.
His delivery is important, too, said Dr Seargeant,"because this complements the mock-heroic turn of phrase with a sense of knowing bluster, which imbues a slight sense of comedy into things". "In the public arena, he exploits at least the following masks: the rousing orator, the affable conversationalist, and the bumbling amateur," said Dr Paul Chilton, professor emeritus of Linguistics at Lancaster University.
And, during the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum campaign, he warned that the European Union was following the path of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon by trying to create a European superstate. ATHENS AND ROME Few modern politicians display their admiration for ancient Greece as much as Britain's next prime minister - full name Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, but commonly referred to as simply"Boris".In a recent interview with talkRADIO, he moved, in minutes, from an admission of making models of London buses out of cardboard boxes to being a fan of Pericles of Athens, a famous Greek statesman and orator who lived in the 5th century BC.
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