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Selecting the most innovative Greeks is not easy, as history is filled with people who thought differently than their contemporaries.

All we need is shelter, food, drink and friendship, and once we have these things "we may rival Zeus in happiness." ...

Ancient Rome is often seen as synonymous with culinary excess. Images of exotic – even orgiastic – feasts perpetuate its ...

Hedgehogs are holists; foxes are pluralists. Hedgehogs have a satisfying explanation of everything, but they can tend toward ...

There’s nowhere quite like Athens. The mix of ancient ruins and modern city life is pretty surreal, and the juxtaposition of a 2500-year-old temple with a corner restaurant serving authentic local ...

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics ...

The Druze, a million-strong Middle Eastern community, blend Plato’s philosophy and mystical traditions like reincarnation in ...

More recently, there have been discussions with Washington state House Republican Jim Walsh about the possibility of building a counter-monument, potentially one dedicated to one of Ukraine’s most ...