…breaking out and I was in school at the University of California at Berkeley and the professor said, we all have to read Thucydides. We all have to read about the war against Sparta. I'm not Sparta. The war against Syracuse, which was in Sicily, and how…

…war were repeated in or occurred in this war, which was fought well before the year zero. But you tell most people to read Thucydides and they just give you a strange look. Well, it's not because we want to be obscurantists or we want to carry on…

…sworn to silence. And literally everyone who was anyone went to Eleusis to experience the mysteries. I mean, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Euripides, everybody. People would make journeys of thousands of miles. It was the wellspring of greek…