Ancient Greeks were active travelers, despite the dangers of land travel and the fear of highwaymen, while sea travel ...

Raphael’s School of Athens was a tidy affair — Plato pointed to the heavens, Aristotle gestured toward the earth, Euclid did geometry in the corner, and Heraclitus brooded like a proto-hipster.

Xenophon's treatment of Socrates in his "Apology" can be explained by a similar polemical motive. While Plato acknowledges that Socrates failed in conventional terms, and develops an alternative ...

In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...

In this article, the work of the cultural historian Jean-Pierre Vernant and the philosophical anthropologist René Girard provides grounds for reflecting on Plato's adaptation of tragedy in the ...

If Plato said these things, it must have been in what Aristotle calls his 'unpublished' teaching. How can we trust implicitly either Aristotle's apprehension of Plato's meaning, or even his ...

Plato’s pupil Aristotle agreed that science provides an account of what we see but diverged from his teacher’s argument that an unchanging ideal was the true essence of things.