"Between 800 and 300 BC, people who spoke Greek made a rapid series of intellectual discoveries that propelled the Mediterranean world to a new level of civilization." That's the first sentence of ...
It’s easy to look down on self-help books, but believe it or not the genre is as old as Athens. The word “therapy” comes from therapeia, the ancient Greek word for “healing.” It treated both the body ...
“I have tried to tell an old story in a new way,” said Professor Edith Hall of Kings College in London as she responded to this reporter’s inquiries. Author of over a dozen books, she a classical ...