Credit: Agostino Scilla (crop) Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA-4.0 The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus is famous for his teaching that “Pleasure is the principle and end to a happy life,” and for his ...
In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...
Philosophy, Ms. Atack writes, prefers to “extract arguments from the text and remove them from their context.” Yet Plato without Athens is like Dickens without London. Plato lived and died an ...