i just a of just beeng in athens to do something, and em andsom working on. So greecen and its orientation eastward is something that i've worked on for a long time. As asanton byzantinus oxford, that's, that's part of my day job. And i came across macaulay writing in the early nineteenth century, saying that the single most important event in english history was the battle of marathan. I think h those conceptializations are really important. But i think that that lack of knowledge about other parts of the world is profound. We should only look at africa within a contest of how europeans
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of two seminal recent books on the shifting geopolitics of the world: The Silk Roads and its follow-up, The New Silk Roads. He speaks to fellow historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore at the Cliveden Literary Festival about how we may be currently witnessing the end of a historical era amid the emergence of a brand new one.
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