In 2024, researchers revealed they had found new details of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s burial site. It was a ...

Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.

Epicureanism was a daily practice, rather than an academic discipline. Anyone who strove to live a philosophical life was part of the Epicurean community and was considered a philosopher.

The popular view of an Epicurean is that of somebody who focuses on pleasure as our guiding principle, indulging in the finer things of life to achieve happiness. And yet what the Ancient Greek ...

Covering everyone from Socrates to Plato, Aristotle to Epicurus, the philosophers’ life stories are told alongside practical exercises.

Scientists can use CT scans and AI to digitally unwrap scrolls, reading their contents without compromising their fragile structures ...

In this important text, Diogenes begins to critique non-Epicurean philosophers' theories of matter.

Plato's possible final resting place was hinted at through deciphering ancient scroll, linking him to a garden at the Academy in Athens, recent research using advanced imaging technologies shows.

Epicurus of Samos (341-270 BC), who flourished not long after Aristotle died, founded a school of philosophy that convened at his home and garden in Athens. Called 'the Garden', this school ...

The new information has been drawn from the oldest known history of Greek philosophy, Philodemus’s Review of the Philosophers—specifically the Epicurean philosopher’s detailing of Plato’s ...

Among these scrolls is a book by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus of Gadara (1st century BC) about the history of Greek philosophy, with the title Arrangement of the Philosophers.