The Conference of the Birds Spring26 tracks down the battered gladiators

tracks down the battered gladiators of yesteryear and asks some pertinent questions

you will never be confused about Ancient Greece

as their odyssey develops into a history of the British nationhood

where he lost some of his closest friends

some infantry units suffering an almost 100 per cent casualty rate

The Conference of the Birds Spring26 tracks down the battered gladiatorsComposed in the twelfth century in north eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to