Professor Felton publishes article on authoritarianism in The Conversation

Dr. Debbie Felton, Professor of Classics at UMass Amherst, has published on a variety of topics about classical myth and history, and is especially interested in bringing her research into the public sphere. In this piece, she discusses one of the many ways in which the ancient Greek historian Herodotus remains relevant to modern political thought.

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