Wildfires driven by increasing winds and unprecedented heat surrounded Athens, Greece, this past summer, blanketing its ancient marble monuments and olive groves with ash and acrid smoke. These are ...
Greek philosopher Anaximenes challenged the foundations of how we see and interpret the world we live in with his innovative ...
Somewhere between Olympus and humanity there's tragedy. It endures because it depicts mortals divided against themselves and others while fate looms, inexorable. We're drawn to the boldness of tragic ...
Long before there was a periodic table of the elements, there was no need for a table — just four chairs. From ancient through medieval into early modern times, natural philosophers could count the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Somewhere between Olympus and humanity there's tragedy. It endures because it depicts mortals divided against themselves and others while fate looms, inexorable. We're drawn to the boldness of tragic ...