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‘Renaissance Man’ is a rather tired cliché. But James Heneage – founder of a chain of bookshops (Ottakar’s, now Waterstones), co-founder of a major history festival (Chalke Valley), and published author of five set-in-Greece historical novels – has earned the accolade far more than most.
To me – a historian of ancient Sparta and honorary citizen