…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…

…And anyone who was anybody in the graeco roman world experienced this. Plato, Anaximander, Anaximenes, all the dramatists, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Everybody went to Eleusis and the rules of the game were: one shot. You could only do it…

…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…

…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…

…Vietnam war were repeated 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…

…the hellenistic period and the logos was an informing voice. And all the great thinkers of hellenistic Times Plato, Socrates, Xenophon, Thucydides, all of these people were in contact with the logos. It was the sine qua non of hellenistic religion and it…