Call me a philhellenist. I have to acknowledge that from the start here, since from my early days, I have been absorbed by the intellectual and aesthetic world that existed in Greece of the fifth century BCE—though I put no hard borders around that period, especially given the rise of science in the Greek colonies in Ionia, the work in science and literature that took place in Alexandria in Egypt until monotheists set off a millennium-long war against freedom of thought, and, of course, the compositions of Hesiod and Homer, be they individual poets or schools of poetry. The gods could be negotiated with; humanity had both a duty and an opportunity to better ourselves, and the cosmos rewarded contemplation of its wonders.
Cities into nations
Cities into nations
Cities into nations
Call me a philhellenist. I have to acknowledge that from the start here, since from my early days, I have been absorbed by the intellectual and aesthetic world that existed in Greece of the fifth century BCE—though I put no hard borders around that period, especially given the rise of science in the Greek colonies in Ionia, the work in science and literature that took place in Alexandria in Egypt until monotheists set off a millennium-long war against freedom of thought, and, of course, the compositions of Hesiod and Homer, be they individual poets or schools of poetry. The gods could be negotiated with; humanity had both a duty and an opportunity to better ourselves, and the cosmos rewarded contemplation of its wonders.