Athanasios Moulakis is Herbst Professor of Humanities at the University of Colorado. He is the author of "Beyond Utility: Liberal Education for a Technological Age, " winner of both the 1994 Frederick W. Ness and the Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book awards, and editor of Eric Voegelin's History of Political Ideas, Volume I: Hellenism, Rome, and Early Christianity and Order and History, Volume II, The World of the Polis.