Ancient Athens When you study about the ancient Athenian democracy, you are bound to have doubts as well as admiration… What kind of democracy excludes women from freedom of speech? And yet the democracy of ancient Athens, as oxymoronic as it may seem, was magnificent given the social conditions. At a time when descent was
Heraclitus is world-wide famous philosopher for saying that “everything flows”: Ta panta rhei. This suggests an attractive and familiar thought, namely that everything changes – all is in permanent flux. . Heraclitus did not simply say that the universe is moving and changing. He also said that we are changing with it. Everything flows, nothing
This year on my vacation to my favorite island, Kefalonia, I met someone who had visited Greece for three times. He had come as a young man with his girlfriend and future wife during college, afterwards with his children, and this time the couple were here just to remember their first trip. He told me