Apple of Discord

Plato and Aristotle surrounded by Greek scholars, philosophers, scientists. Fragment from “The School of Athens” by Rafael, 1511. Vatican Museum. Photo: Kevin Moffett.

Prologue

For millennia, the Greeks maintained a fragile yet powerful connection with each other. They knew they shared the same national identity. Homer and other poets and philosophers and historians elaborated the things that kept the Greeks together: speaking the same language, piety for the gods and born in the same land.