Kallitechnia
Art and artifice in the golden age of Athens.
Imagine, if you will, a street in Athens. Now imagine it in a time long, long ago, but when the city was already old and had behind it a long and storied history. This was the era of Socrates the philosopher, of Pindar the poet, and of Euripides the master dramatist. It was the remarkable half century or so before the disastrous war with Sparta; a time when anything seemed possible in every field of human endeavour. Above...