Culture of Hellas: the main problems and categories

Ancient Greece has made a contribution to the European cultural tradition. Sophocles and Aesop, Fidius and Plato, Homer and Safo, Euclid and Hippocrates, Pericl and Herodotus - these names excite us to this day, and it was in Hellas that the theater, philosophy and most sciences first appeared. But what did the Hellenes themselves think about their world? How did they feel about life and death, work and love, freedom and history? What is Logos and Eros, Agon and Catharsis, Myth and Sofia, Techno and Ariet, Arch and Paidia? And how did the Hellenic miracle possible, when the small people managed to give rise to more geniuses for two or three centuries and make more discoveries than everything else of humanity in its entire history? The historian and philosopher Peter Ryabov are thinking over these issues. The book is addressed to everyone who is interested in antiquity and wants to understand the present, so much obligated to it and is not like it