Socrates was a philosopher warrior, exemplifying courage, endurance and the pursuit of virtue through action as well as ...

Should Socrates be held responsible for the actions of his pupils, particularly those among them who had joined the tyrants? Timed by a water clock, the old philosopher remained as stubborn as ever.

As religion and philosophy scholars ... in agreement and take the dear friend for a beer. But when the ancient Athenian Socrates was delivered this news, he responded with sincere and utter ...

The ancient Greeks had a variety of theories about extraterrestrial life. The philosopher Anaxagoras believed that aliens ...

Long before TMZ dominated our feeds with celebrity gossip, people in Ancient Greece were captivated by the scandals of their own stars.

Hypatia, one of the greatest philosophers of Alexandria, was admired for her ideas but was brutally murdered for them by ...

But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical ... Callard offers a roadmap for using the ancient Greek philosopher for approaching knotty discussion on topics such as love, politics ...

The ancient Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus was born into slavery but his study of Stoicism made him a free man who became very influential.

Welcome to the ancient agora, the original social media of the ancient Greeks, where people could argue about... everything!

But the book is inconsistent and difficult to follow sometimes, as it bounces from an easy distillation of Socrates' philosophy to an all-too-detailed history of ancient Greece. Some of the ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato ... The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But ...