In Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave (written in Athens, about 400 BC), he posits that when we perceive people or objects and think they are real, we are in fact only seeing reflections of a true form or ideal. We can be compared to a lifelong prisoner in a cave who has only ever seen the… Continue reading Gods and Goddesses in the Aegean and West Turkish Sclerophyllous and Mixed Forests