Excavations at Ai Khanoum on the northern border of modern Afghanistan have produced great quantities of Greek inscriptions and even the remnants of a philosophical treatise originally on papyrus. One...
I wish I was here, or I wish I was there...' In our age of global travel we are all potential heirs to the simile of Hera's flight.
Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians, Muslims, Hindus or atheist nowadays
Those who idealize the past tend not to understand it: restoration kills it with kindness.