Greek Reporter

The Transition From Myth to Scientific Thought in Ancient Greece

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.
Greek Reporter

Archimedes’ Screw: The Ancient Greek Water-Raising Invention Still Used Today

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern applications.
CounterPunch

Greek Lighthouses of Knowledge

Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...
Publishers Weekly

Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World

Europe's debt to Islamic scholarship is counted up in this sketchy intellectual history. Freely (Strolling Through Athens), a historian of science, surveys the work of ancient Greek thinkers from ...