Title

The Logomachean Method

Creator

Chatzivasileiou, Vasileios

Abstract

The Logomachean Method is a novella, a work of historical fiction set in ancient Athens in the very early Hellenistic period, after Alexander but shortly before the wars of the Diadochi. The story follows Logomaches, a brilliant but eccentric physician and scientist living in a pre-scientific and pre-medical era, who is called on to save Athens from a deadly epidemic, and who employs an early version of the scientific method to find the cure. However, public panic, superstition, time pressure and the intense political intrigues of Athens’s transitional regime under Macedonian occupation offer his chances of success a bleak prognosis.

Keywords

Scientific Method

Epidemic

Fiction

Subject

interdisciplinary

Date Available

May 23, 2025

Type

Novella

Course

HNS 2250 Debunking Pseudoscience

Course Offering Term

Fall Semester 2024

Instructor

Valahas, Michael

Session

Honors Creative Projects

Location

Student Lounge

Event

Year 2025 | 9th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium