New research suggests the universe is conscious, and that it possesses a sense of purpose.

Among the common five visitors, viz. Apis dorsata, Apis mellifera, Chrysomya megacephala, Danaus chrysippus and Micraspis discolor, A. dorsata showed the highest visitation rate (VR) for each plant ...

He may have died laughing, but Chrysippus gifted us the blueprint for modern psychology and the Stoic wisdom that can calm our modern world.

Galen is well known as a critic of Stoicism, mainly for his massive attack on Stoic (or at least, Chrysippean) psychology in "On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato" (PHP) 2-5. Galen attacks both ...

An ambitious project to reconstruct the thought of the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus through the Herculaneum Papyri PHerc. 1421 and PHerc. 1038 gets under way at the University of Turin. The project ...

Laughter can be deadly in rare instances, as shown by three bizarre cases where people have died from laughing too hard. These include ancient Greek philosopher Chrysippus of Soli, who allegedly ...

Chrysippus is said to have died from laughter after witnessing a donkey being fed wine. While an unusual and rare occurrence, the most popular account suggests he saw a donkey eating figs and jokingly ...

While Chrysippus structured the teachings in writing, Panaetius introduced the doctrine to Rome (he was a friend of Scipio), and Posidonius was Cicero’s teacher.

Why Stoicism has been compared to Buddhism: An exploration of similarities between these two philosophical traditions.

★★★☆☆ Uncompromising Bedlam Theatre (Venue 49): Tue 13 – Sun 18 Aug 2024 Review by Allan Wilson Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s Oedipus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a challengingly complex ...