Introduction: A Nation of Promise Held Back by Its Own Failures Ghana often feels like a bright lamp hidden under a heavy cloth .

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

On Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond, by Piero Boitani.

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

Former Citizen Times reporter Susan Dryman, who worked with photographer John Coutlakis, who died Dec. 5, 2025, remembers his ...

Sophists in ancient Greece were professional educators and intellectuals. Their teachings emphasized public speaking and ...

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 ...