Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.

Ammonius Saccas was a Greek philosopher that revived Platonism and shaped metaphysical thought and spiritual philosophy in ...

Additionally, the text explains that Plato was sold into slavery between 404 and 399 B.C.E. Historians previously believed that this occurred in 387 B.C.E. New Technology Used to Decipher Ancient Text ...

“The new readings often draw on new and concrete facts about Plato’s Academy, Hellenistic literature, Philodemus of Gadara, and ancient history in general.” These revelations not only ...

Dr Kennedy, whose findings are published in the leading US journal Apeiron, reveals that Plato used a regular pattern of symbols, inherited from the ancient followers of Pythagoras, to give his books ...

Resuming our discussion of writer and critic Eric Illayapaarchchi’s in depth analysis of music (from his book ‘Kalaawa Soya ...

The link between dance and sport traces back to the works of Plato in Ancient Greece. The ancient athlete/warriors included dance and music in their physical training. Plato’s notion of the rhythm and ...

Such singers roamed ancient Greece, earning a living by singing and performing Homeric and other verses. In ‘Ion,’ Plato wrote about a dialogue between Socrates and Ion. Ion sang songs about ...