How far has the Western intellect come since Homer and the earliest Greek philosophers? Nearly three millennia have passed and in our own eyes we have ...

There are no sacred cows for modern scientists. Ironically, modern science has itself become a sacred cow, of which we hear very little criticism. But ...

What was the purpose of the ancient Greek Olympics? No one really knows. But the first essay in this book examines one early Greek games whose purpose ...

Of all the crafts and professions other than the priesthood, none has been more closely connected with the religious taditions of Western peoples than ...

Plato is the first scientist whose work we still possess. He is our first writer to interpret the natural world mathematically, and also the first theorist ...