Asclepius eyes.Asclepius became so proficient as a healer that he surpassed both Chiron and his father, Apollo. Asclepius was therefore able to evade death and to bring others back to life from the brink of death and beyond. This caused an influx of human beings and Zeus resorted to killing him to maintain balance in the numbers of the human population. At some point, Asclepius was among those who took part in the Calydonian Boar hunt. Zeus killed Asclepius with a thunderbolt because he brought Hippolytus back from the dead and accepted gold for it. Other stories say that Asclepius was
Who Killed Homer? feminism, identity politics and other political causes. Who Killed Homer? "Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom," is a 1988 book by Classics scholars Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath. Reviewing "Who Killed Homer?" for Foreign Affairs, Francis Fukuyama described it as "ostensibly" focused on the decline of classical studies, but "really about the loss of a common, humanistic core in contemporary education and culture." "Who Killed Homer?," was a polemic book criticizing classics scholars including Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Judith Hallett, and Amy Richlin, who, in the authors' opinion, misinterpreted and debased classical