The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

Nevertheless, there are some accounts of apocalypses past and future in ancient writings. Greek poet, economic philosopher, contemporary of Homer, and occasional chronicler of history, Hesiod ...

THE study of the history of Greek philosophy requires no defence and, fortunately, little encouragement. Confessedly our intellectual culture can be traced to Greek origin. The subject is so ...

Ancient Greek philosophers used paradoxes for all sorts of reasons, from sharpening their dialectical skills and showing philosophical opponents were talking nonsense to serious philosophical inquiry ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined ... Vegetarianism wasn't common in the ancient world. But it did have some adherents, often from ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Greece by Professor Edith Hall and comedian Dan Schreiber to learn all about famous philosopher Aristotle and his world-changing ideas. Show more Greg Jenner is ...

John Cooper, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and renowned interpreter of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, died at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center on Aug. 8 ...