The alpha and the omega: why a life without Homer is a life half-lived -- The living, the dead, and the deathless: mortality in Hesiod, Homer and Sophocles -- Man is a political animal: democracy and the polis -- Pandora's daughters: the silent majority -- Swords and sandals: war in Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides -- Beyond the borders: Greeks and barbarians -- The twilight of the gods: the beginnings of science, from Thales to Aristotle -- The death of Socrates and the birth of philosophy: the challenge of Plato's Republic -- Love and loss: desire in Homer, Sappho and Plato.
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