here is perhaps the best answer to those who attacked Allan Bloom and his like for championing the achievements of ‘dead, white, European males’ in a small city-state 2,500 years ago. These are the words of the German historian of science Theodor Gomperz: ‘Nearly our entire intellectual education originates from the Greeks. A thorough knowledge of their origin is the indisputable prerequisite for freeing ourselves from their overwhelming influence.’106
