May 25

515 – Good Ship or Bad Boat? France as Naval Metaphor

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The ship has been a popular metaphor for statecraft since at least the Ancient Greeks. The ‘ship of state’ was mentioned by Aeschylus in Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), and more influentially by Plato in his Republic (380 BC). 
Plato was making an anti-democratic point by equating statesmanship …

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