Flawed

The short answer is: Yes, except no.

The long answer takes up an entire shelf in the library.

Classics

The greatest achievement of modern scholarship may have been taking a literature full of stabbing, racy sex, and dirty jokes and making it stultifyingly boring.

Athens

Don’t get possessive.

Thucydides

Do you want a plague? Because that’s how you get a plague!

Art

If Brexit leads to the return of the Parthenon marbles, then at least it will have accomplished one good thing.