Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...
Prologue In the early 1970s, I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Adamantios Koraes at the University of Wisconsin. I read his ...
Adamantios Koraes, 1748-1833, did his intellectual and revolutionary work in Paris — far from his hometown Smyrna and the Turks who controlled Smyrna and Greece. From the relative safety of Paris, he ...
The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped ...