Depicting the Ancient Greek legacy to hermeneutics entails, of course, that we face the challenges of interpretation itself. There are no clear accounts of the origins of hermeneutics, that is to say, no historic moment when, as with Columbus’s discovery of the Americas or Newton’s moment of realisation about gravity, we can say hermeneutics was discovered, or indeed invented. Furthermore, to say even in the broadest of terms when hermeneutics first arises is to encounter enormous problems in the interpretation of ancient cultures. Gerald Bruns, for example, reflects these issues in his most interesting discussion in Hermeneutics, Ancient and Modern