Ancient Greek and Latin have - to different degrees - strongly influenced the majority of European languages.
They are ubiquitous in the terminology of medicine, laws, arts, the humanities as well as the natural and social sciences.
Knowledge of the Ancient Languages can therefore markedly facilitate the study of these fields.
Atomists and the Stoa school produced ideas that were rediscovered in the renaissance. They were further developed by humanists as well as in the age of enlightenment and are essential to present-day European thought.
The atomism of Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius set the stage for all of the the natural sciences. Myriads of details have later been added, the vast majority of them being consistent with the original atomistic principles.
Key ideas of the Stoa have preserved their relevance and brilliance.
They continue to serve as an orientation.
The European Values and the Ancient Languages are not automatically self-perpetuating.
Upholding them for a peaceful future rather requires constant effort
in lieu of lamenting or complaining,
epiStoa lobbies the promotion of the European Values and the Ancient Languages through a variety of activities and projects.
