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The Science of Man in Ancient GreeceAlthough the ancient Greeks did not have an anthropology as we know it, they did have an acute interest in human nature, especially questions of difference. What makes men different from women, slaves different from free men, barbarians different from Greeks? Are these differences visible in the body? How can they be classified and explained? Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs Greek attempts to answer such questions from Homer's day to late antiquity,

Early Christian monks beat us to it

and virtue

creates in them a sudden overpowering desire for one another

because of all Aristophanes’ great comedies

the French revolution and Napoleon

τα υπόσκαφα

Cicero pleads for the rule of law as a vital counterweight to the anarchy that the gangs of Clodius

Οι βαλκανικοί πόλεμοι έρχονται αιφνιδιαστικά να απαιτήσουν φοβερές θυσίες απ' όλους

προσφέροντας παράλληλα μια ματιά στη μαγεία του χειμώνα

and epigrams on various subjects

The translation of the whole Bible in Today’s Greek from the original texts is the fruit of around thirty years of work

which is defined and dictated by the events going on around him