 This allows the author to reinterpret radically the entire environment of Archaic and Classic Greece, no longer regarded as a miraculous island of rationality, but as a part of a unique community including Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Egypt.The theory of the volume is based on a new interpretation of the term "Ápeiron", central in Anaximander's philosophy.Anaximander defines the element from which all things originate with the Greek term "ápeiron", commonly held to be formed from "a" (alpha privative, "without") and "péras" ("determination", "limit"), and thus translated as "endless", "unlimited".