Armand Leroi: The Lagoon [2014] hardback PHOTO MAGIC IS THE ONLY WEAPON

MAGIC IS THE ONLY WEAPON AGAINST THE GODS

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the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born

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Armand Leroi: The Lagoon [2014] hardback PHOTO MAGIC IS THE ONLY WEAPONIn the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was the greatest philosopher of all time. Author of the Poetics, Politics and Metaphysics, his work looms over the history of Western thought. But he was also a biologist the first. Aristotle explored the mysteries of the natural