The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” Agnes Callard illustrates how philosophy isn’t just a spectator ...

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the ...

In the year 399 BC, seventy years after he was born, Socrates was brought before the ... otherwise not be gods ran contrary to almost all Greek mythology, which is filled with jealous and self ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.

Even Socrates, famed for his simple clothing and ... The word skolion means “sideways” in ancient Greek, a reference to how the guests took turns to sing, afterward passing a myrtle branch ...

When people choose not to believe in truth or don’t care about the truth, it is not that they then believe in nothing but ...

But the book is inconsistent and difficult to follow sometimes, as it bounces from an easy distillation of Socrates' philosophy to an all-too-detailed history of ancient Greece. Some of the ...

But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical ... Callard offers a roadmap for using the ancient Greek philosopher for approaching knotty discussion on topics such as love, politics ...