Category Archives: Greece
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
These are the words of Sir Isaac Newton, 1675 A.D., quoting a well-known saying coined a few hundred years earlier. He was reminding us of the debt that current scholars owe to the great ones of the past. Newton was a physicist, … Continue reading
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Tagged Empedocles, Gorgias, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, Pre-Socratic philosophers, Protagoras, Pythagorean Theorem, Sir Isaac Newton, Thales of Miletus
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I Wept for Greece
When tears well in my eyes upon reading a passage in a book, I must explore the possible reasons for this. I am only sixty percent through reading “Postcards from Greece,” by Victoria Hislop. Her story is unerringly soulful and … Continue reading
