The Athens Dialogues - An International Conference on Culture and Civilization

Joseph Bryant writes on "Schism as Identity Transformation in Early Christianity," discussing an example from early Christian history that explains the role of a particular schism in facilitating the eventual triumph of the mainstream Church in the Hellenistic-Roman world.

In his contribution, "From Ancient to Modern: Byron, Shelley, and the Idea of Greece," Roderick Beaton writes about how the Romantic poets' ideological development culminated in their support of and participation in the Greek Revolution of 1821.

In "Life and the Geometry of the Environment," Nikos Salingaros notes that increasing evidence shows that the geometry of the natural and built environments is, to a large extent, responsible for human quality of life.