A few weeks ago I visited the Acropolis in Athens for the first time. To know that, about 25 centuries ago, Euripides and Sophocles presented their premiers in there, at the theater of Dionysos, suddenly gave a pile of rubble an extraordinary sense of purpose and meaning.
I admire the wit of Taleb to call Mandelbrot a Greek--in this modern world of very Roman panem et circenses.
