4. The Greeks and the Irrational

Baby naming ceremonies, except in the nude and with gifts of cuttlefish! Wandering shamans preaching the mystical power of numbers! A living oral tradition that goes back to the last Ice Age!

Behold, the Ancient Greeks. Against a skeptical interlocutor, it is argued that they were stranger and more interesting by far than we now imagine.

Also featuring a whistle stop tour of the Mycenaean Age, the Bronze Age Collapse, Homer, the Persian invasions and the birth of classical antiquity and all that came  with it - philosophy, history, drama, democracy, athletics, and everything else that makes us think the Greeks were more relatable than they actually were.