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August is over and still no win for United on their return to League One - can that change this weekend?In this episode of The Brunton Bugle, Lee and Mike preview the visit of Shrewsbury Town to Brunton Park - it's been a long time since the Blues have beaten Salop at Brunton Park in the league - can they end that run on Saturday?We also chat with Chris from the excellent Salopcast to get the opposition view - we talked about Steve Cotterill's summer departure and the fall-out from that, Matt Taylor's appointment as boss and his start in the hotseat, and of course, how Morgan Feeney has got on...

This week the guys wrap up the second portion of Marrou's chapter on the ancient ephebia, that system of education for youth ages 14-21 that was popularized by the city of Athens and which spread to more than 100 cities around the Mediterranean during the Hellenistic era. What were the features of this system, and how did they vary from polis to polis? What happened when the generosity of local benefactors, euergetes, couldn't be tapped anymore for resources? How did public funding come into play? What about all of those multiplied titles, the various underlings who supervised the various ...