The Athens Dialogues - An International Conference on Culture and Civilization

Summary: Alexander’s campaign to the east has had far-reaching implications for archaeological discoveries in Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In light of these discoveries, a reexamination of sea-faring, trade, and communication in north-western India and in the western Indian Ocean expands the existing paradigm of…[Read more]

Summary: Throughout history, the Ottoman triumph over Byzantium (1453), has been interpreted by Christians as a punishment sent by God. In the years following his conquest, Mehmed II the Conqueror helped to develop this ideology. His interest in history, as well as his fascination with the city of Constantinople, is well preserved, as is his […]

Summary: “We are all Greeks,” wrote P.B. Shelley, proclaiming his idealistic belief that modern Europeans owed the roots of their civilization to Greece. An admirer of any kind of revolution, Shelly saw at once the radical nature of the revolt in Greece and naturally associated it with the establishment of the world’s first democracy. His […]

Summary: Although biology lagged behind physics through most of the 20th century in terms of research and discovery, the discovery of the human genome and subsequent advances in molecular biology ushered in a new era of biological research. The proposal to sequence the human genome by the U.S. Department of Energy opened the door to […]