He was a friend of Xenophon — who was his best biographer — and an extraordinary military commander whose abilities helped maintain the hegemony of Sparta in Greece, although his lack of diplomatic ...
Who was Byzas, the legendary Greek founder of the city of Byzantium? This article examines where he was from, what he did, and when he lived.
The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.