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TRIGGERnometry

How Civilisations Die - Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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What can the West learn from the fall of Athens and ancient Greece? We're in a much worse place

0:50.3

than late-day Athens. I do think hubris needs to be a recurrent word. I've never known a more

0:58.5

selfish, myopic, frankly, Philistine and uneduced-educated class of politicians than we have now.

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and things go wrong in the year that they have power,

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you could be executed.

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They don't know.

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Dr David Butterfield, we have been waiting to have this conversation for literally months. Welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you so much for having me. It's a thrill to be here, chaps. Yeah, well, it's great to have you on. We met actually in Greece, where you were part of a Ralston College tour there for the students, and we were invited along. And you talk, you're a classicist,

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that's your background. In fact, why don't you tell us your background? Because that will be,

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