@BowsacNoodle @Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @WhiteJihadJaws @grey One of the most impressive things I have ever attempted to read was *Against Heresies*, by St. Irenaeus of Lyon. In it, he basically constructs Classical Hellenism from the ground-up, refuting everything that needs refutation, and completing everything else with the God-Man Jesus Christ as Himself the LOGOS.
Now, I’d obviously heard about Classical Hellenism, but it hadn’t really occurred to me it was an entire, comprehensive, corporate/collective domain of specialized knowledge, constructed over centuries by trained professional men who had devoted their entire career-lives to establishing it.
St. Irenaeus was clearly and exhaustively familiar with it.