Unlike the Greek focus on external honor, Christianity turns the gaze inward. The believer must acknowledge personal ...

The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and ...

This scene is reminiscent of the death of Socrates, Xenophon’s mentor, who died by suicide surrounded by his friends and followers after his fellow Athenians condemned him to death. Babylon ...

Xenophon also remarks: “He endured hunger and cold with remarkable perseverance, and no man could be more moderate in his desires or more resolute in bearing hardships.” Plato vividly describes ...

the physical and internal character of Socrates is presented as it is passed down to us by, for instance, Plato and Xenophon. Nothing suggests that Christ is an exception to this pattern. Voltaire ...

Xenophon is celebrated throughout history as a contemplative general. Raphael’s School of Athens captures this association, as he imagines the general hanging on Socrates’ every word. Alcibiades, ...

she asks. The Socratic dialogues—the few dozen semi-fictional texts in which Socrates is a main character, written in the fourth century B.C. by Plato, Xenophon, and others—explored a range of ...

Xenophon, who gave us the narrative of the carnage of the last seven years of the Peloponnesian War, was a pupil, like Plato, of Socrates, an Athenian patriot and moral philosopher that fought in ...