As a corrective to Herodotus, Thucydides labored to provide a simple, factual narrative of events

Alexander the Great sought to destroy the pernicious influence of Hinduism on Western culture.

Thucydides neutral, secular perspective eliminated the emotion of religious bias from his analysis.

The rapid demise of Athens illustrates the futility of Democratic governance apart from Christ.

Biblical eschatology envisions the progressive cultural conquest of the gospel through history.

Thucydides set a precedent for viewing politics as the dominant force driving historical events.

The Greek cyclical view of history tends to short-circuit human progress

Thucydides admitted that he couldn’t record all the speeches word-for-word.

Thucydides was the first historian to attempt a spiritual interpretation of events in the War.

The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Persia was one of the most brutal in world history.

Women’s franchise led to social instability in 20^th Century America

State sponsored education led to cultural stagnation in Sparta.

Communist purges of the 20^th Century drew inspiration from Euripides’ Bacchae.

Early Christians showed discernment in separating from the philosophers & playwrights of Greece

Euripides portrayal of Dionysus contrasts sharply with the unchanging God of the Bible.

Modern America is more like Sparta than Athens

Euripides outgoing nature brought him close contact with Athenian social elite, such as Pericles

Dionysus is similar to Christ in terms of his death and resurrection

The story of the Bacchae illustrates the wisdom of the Biblical prohibition on alcoholic beverage.

Euripides delighted in habitually presenting the Greek gods as heroes in his plays.

Freud provided the much needed antidote for the moral laxity of the 20^th Century.

The people of a nation suffer for the sins of their rulers due to the principle of headship

Compared to Sophocles, Aeschylus was more symbolic.

Sophocles reinforced the trend to focus on the Greek gods, as opposed to man & his struggles.

The Oedipus Complex was adopted by the 20^th Century psychotherapist, Bertrand Russell.

The doctrine of “the one & the many” harmonizes individual freedom and social responsibility.

In contrast to “blind fate,” God’s sovereignty integrates the moral choices of men.

Although Sophocles was a contemporary of Pericles, the two never met.

As a playwright, Sophocles introduced a third actor to the stage.

The chorus of a Greek play would typically reinforce traditional cultural mores.

The new system favors persuasion of the Areopagus to the riddles of the Oracle at Delphi.

Greek Democracy was ultimately more stable than the old system of family justice

Biblical government is a system of loosely allied city-states, foreshadowed by the 12 tribes of Israel.

The state is subordinate to the family and individual under the democratic system of government.

Democracy functions efficiently until the Eumenides are aroused.

The system of family justice operated smoothly in Greek culture until the advent of the city-state.

The Furies are the peaceful Eumenides, or “kindly ones”.

The blood avenger was a vigilante appointed to enforce justice when the court system failed.

Aeschylus is the father of the Greek tragedy

The Bible recommends an agrarian lifestyle as opposed to the injustice, and disorder of the city.

The Greek demigods were children of demons and women, as described in Genesis 6:4.

Athens Democratic ideals were carried over into her administration of the Delian League.

Herodotus was careful to avoid subjective stories in order not to compromise fact.

Herodotus history might well be titled, The Rise and Fall of the Persian Empire

The Delian League, led by Athens, had a treasury on the Island of Delos.

Athens won the decisive war with Persia at the Battle of Salamis

As the “Father of History,” Herodotus depicted the epic conflict of Greece and Egypt.

Athens victory in the Persian Wars paved the way for the growth of Biblical Democracy.

Herodotus saw the Persian War as a conflict between basic values of East and West.

Herodotus inexplicably ignored the dealings of the Persians with the Children of Israel.

Homer reflected a strong Jewish influence in his poetry

The Iliad is to Greece as the Bible is to Israel

Nothing is known of Homer apart from his two epic poems

Like the Bible, Greek mythology teaches that “the first shall be last”

There is little correspondence between Homer’s epics and the work of later Greek playwrights

The Odyssey teaches us that political power is rooted in ruthless cunning

The Bible condemns dueling, but commands self-defense

The fickleness of the Greek gods is contrasted with the fatalistic certainty of life on earth

The stage is set for war when Achilles elopes with Penelope

The Odyssey portrays the epic struggle of Greece against Troy