Plato was one of the most important ancient philosophers. He wrote a series of dialogues before he died in 348/347 B.C.

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If you think politicians make outlandish claims, consider what Christians celebrate at Easter. They believe a man named Jesus was brutally tortured, ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

His lectures on Homer were so popular ... about contemporary Greece; his first letter to the Greek Orthodox patriarch, Jeremias II, asked whether modern Greeks possessed ‘any culture’ at all. In ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

the Trojan-horse-building genius in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, merely a figure of ancient fiction — or was he a flesh-and-blood man? In 1991, Makis Metaxas, a local politician on the Greek ...

Perfumes had captivated the ancient Greeks and through many sources, we can still venture through the world of perfumes in ...

The werewolf myth is not a product of modern fiction, but a story going back more than two millennia to Lycaon, the ancient ...

Eratosthenes became the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy, a feat that stands as a ...