I’ve spent the last week and a half studying ancient Greece, Turkish Greece, as well as Greece today. I was originally going to spend some time studying ancient philosophers but the research began to morph. I was at a second hand book store and I bought The Illiad by Homer, so I wanted to learn a bit more about him as well as the philosophers I was going to focus on (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.) Then I remember that Archimedes lived around the same time that these guys did, and Archimedes is one of my heroes, so I couldn’t leave him out of my study. Then I thought that since I’d come this far already, I’d just learn about great minds from ancient history. But as I was writing up short bios to start with for each of these people, I began to realize that all but one or two were from Greece. So I thought “There must be something about Greece that is helping these people” this is why I decided to study Greece.
