Most modern classicists fail to investigate pharmacology and medical texts, leaving the field largely unexplored.

“nobody goes near the pharmaceutical stuff now”

The Greco-Roman intellectual tradition, intertwined with Christianity, is the essential foundation of the Western tradition.

“Fundamentally, the West would look nothing like it does and there is no way we would be having this conversation without the intertwined threads of the Greco Roman intellectual philosophical artistic tradition and the core thread of Christianity which itself emerges from Judaism.”