The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes ...
During Socrates' youth Athens was a city at the height of its power and the intellectual center of the Greek world ... but before he began his career as a philosopher, he was destined for more ...
Socrates, lived in Athens circa 450 BCE ... In contemporary use, the name of the Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus tends to refer to the pleasure-obsessed: An Epicurean night out almost certainly ...
Should Socrates be held responsible for the actions of his pupils, particularly those among them who had joined the tyrants? Timed by a water clock, the old philosopher remained as stubborn as ever.
The Tollund Man, Denmark’s most famous bog body, has been precisely dated for the first time, revealing that he lived and died around the same period as the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.