In a paper just published in the scholarly journal Historia,  "Greek Epiphanies and the Sensed Presence", Gabriel Herman, Professor of Ancient History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. and award-winning author of Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens: A Social History, argues the third man factor "offers an important clue for unravelling the mental processes that gave rise to the epiphanies in ancient Greek culture."

"Most scholars trained in the rigors of classical philology would…