Pherecydes of Syros, a pioneering philosopher and tutor of Pythagoras, blended myth and metaphysics, shaping early Greek thought.

“These schools of thought made it impossible to imagine other worlds,” says Harmes. Other Greek thinkers wrote about their perspectives on other worlds as well. Anaxagoras, a Greek philosopher who ...

is simultaneously one of the oldest questions in philosophy and a relatively new concept: While the quest for purpose stretches back farther than the ancient Greek thinkers, it wasn’t until the ...

Like the Greeks, we also hold the Olympics every four years. Ancient Greek thinkers made big discoveries. Hippocrates was famous for his ideas about medicine. Sappho was a famous Greek poet.

From Athens the BBC's Jonathan Dimbleby discusses Greece and its relationship with the EU with a panel of politicians and thinkers - The Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos; the former Mayor of ...