Posts by Mind The Greeks
How Ancient Greek Literature Survived Against All Odds
An adventure in transmission: from sung epics to papyrus rolls, from Byzantine scriptoria to Renaissance presses, from desert rubbish h...
Women’s Health in Ancient Greek Medicine: Soranus and Gynecology
Ancient Greek medicine is often imagined as a field dominated by abstract theory and limited anatomical knowledge, especially when it c...
Why Reading Ancient Mathematics in Greek Still Matters
Ancient Greek mathematics is often treated as the purest example of content that survives translation without loss. Numbers are univers...
On the Soul: Ancient Greek Reflections on the Inner Life
Among the many ideas inherited from Ancient Greek thought, few have proven as enduring, or as elusive, as the concept of the soul. Long...
Alexander the Great Through Greek Eyes
Alexander the Great is often presented as a universal hero, a military genius, and a symbol of unstoppable ambition. Yet the way people...
From Nature to the Human World: Presocratics and the Rise of the Sophists
Early Greek philosophy begins with a striking ambition: to understand the world as a whole. The first philosophers ask about the origin...
Aristotle’s View of Nature: Order, Change, and Purpose
Aristotle did not study nature as a distant observer collecting random facts. He studied it as someone trying to understand how the wor...
From Fate to Psychology: How Euripides Changed Tragedy
Greek tragedy began as a public art shaped by myth, religion, and the weight of divine power. In many early tragedies, human beings suf...