Many people mark the end of the ancient world with the fall of Rome in 476 AD — but some argue the true ending came in 529 AD ...

I spent most of the past 15 years translating the complete works of Plato from Ancient Greek into English, and these ...

Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, an outbreak of anti-Macedonian feeling swept Athens, forcing Aristotle ...

The Stoic dichotomy treats betrayal like weather. Plato knew better: another person's choices flow from character—and ...

Everyone at the party was praising love, calling it beautiful and benevolent. Diotima says this cannot be the case. Love is ...

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...

Plato reveals how imitation in art and media can imprison the modern soul in shadows far removed from the truth.

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance ...

Further to my earlier letter titled, “Psychology of Greed and Philosophy for a New World Order” (The Island 26.11.2025) it ...

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for ...

MR. CHERNISS'S large volume will be most welcome to all serious students of Greek philosophy; none the less that it lays a heavy burden of duty upon them. There is already a vast literature in many ...

In the second century A.D. at the city of Oinoanda, the philosopher Diogenes inscribed his works on the wall of a stoa, or portico, in a public square.(Martin Bachmann) In the winter of 1884, two ...