© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos; individual chapters, the contributors. From the dawn of civilisation, people have been posing questions about the specificity of human nature. Such anthropological interests have included thoughts about the generation of man, the constitution of the body, its peculiar relation to the soul etc. The Byzantines, heirs of the Roman empire and its Hellenic ...