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Are pandemics something new? How on Earth did ancient empires and their citizens react to them? Is there a way to protect ourselves both mentally and physically against them? How do pandemics affect our social metal and religious behavior? The most objective historian of all time, Thucydides gives the answer to all these problems by describing the symptoms and the effects of the pandemic in the Ancient Athens Empire (he was also ill from the plague and got over it!).

In what way did Plato and Socrates set the foundation for the coaching, mentoring, self-development, and leadership sciences? Was Plato the man who first conceived the idea of an audible book? And even more, did Plato first say that wise men don’t get stuck with goods or properties, because the whole world is the limit? If that's true, then he also set the foundation for the modern e-business that possesses nothing of material properties, yet they have conquered the world (Uber owns no taxies, and FB creates no content, and also Airbnb possesses no real estate.)

What is the purpose and essence of things? How does society work? What is the form of society? Are social ranks, laws, and orders dictated by law or by nature? In these fundamental questions, ancient Greek philosophers have first tried to give their answers.