Tag Archives: Herodotus
The Black Sea
Traversed by Ancient and Modern Empires Here is about an area of the world that remains, for those of us oriented primarily toward North America and Europe, a historically complicated and geographically confusing mélange of ancient empires initially forged by … Continue reading
“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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The Pavellas Perspective 