San Sebastián, Spain, 1950. He is a professor of moral philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. He received his doctorate with a thesis on Euripides' Bacchantes. He was a professor of Greek and currently teaches anthropology of classical Greece, philosophy and history of religions. He has published numerous articles in specialized magazines on various aspects of Greek thought (mythology, literature and philosophy, anthropology of war, the Greek tragedy, Euripides, Thucydides), as well as on the theories of symbolism and on E. Cassirer versus totalitarianism. His interest is mainly focused on the cultural factors of violence and suffering, and on the Platonic-Christian conditioning of Western thought.