One of our ongoing themes in the course has been how climate change has effected the course of human history. Check out how a volcano explosion is the best explanation we have for the sudden end of the Minoan civilization.
"Yet do not bring up against me the sweet favours of golden Aphrodite.
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent,which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them." -Paris, on defending his decision to burgle Helen- The Lliad
