Background
Athens is said to have been continuously inhabited since about 3000BC, though in reality probably not long after the flood in about 2500BC. The original city was built on a fortress shaped rock, the Acropolis. As the city grew buildings appeared around the Acropolis with the most importa…
The fate of the Persian fleet
At the same time the battle of Thermopylae was taking place, a naval battle was taking place in the straits of Artemisium. This conflict consisted of a series of naval engagements over three days and took place simultaneously with the land battle at Thermopylae, in Aug…
Athens was a place of learning and a centre of human wisdom which was greatly admired in the Roman Empire. It was known for hosting various schools of philosophy, and philosophers abounded, each one having disciples who lived in their presence and observed their way of life hundreds of years before …
The Epicurians
In the previous article we considered some of the overlap of the Bible with the Stoick doctrines. In this article we will briefly consider the Epicurean doctrines. The Epicureans, like other philosophers, liked to discuss different ideas about how the world worked to find the true pu…
