Thomas Cahill Quote

These symposia may have been, as much as anything, occasions to release the pent-up anxieties of a society always at war—"the father of all, the king of all," "always existing by nature," as the Greek philosophers expressed it.


Ch. III The Poet: How to Party - Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)


These symposia may have been, as much as anything, occasions to release the pent-up anxieties of a society always at war—the father of all, the...

These symposia may have been, as much as anything, occasions to release the pent-up anxieties of a society always at war—the father of all, the...

These symposia may have been, as much as anything, occasions to release the pent-up anxieties of a society always at war—the father of all, the...

These symposia may have been, as much as anything, occasions to release the pent-up anxieties of a society always at war—the father of all, the...