Human beings have always prized friendship. As the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote: “no one would choose to live without friends,” even if they could have all other good things instead.
It unfolds as a portrait of a different kind of political resistance — one of steadfast endurance. Eunice refuses the military dictatorship’s attempt to break her and her family. When ...
Viva la diva: Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, Haluk Bilginer as Aristotle Onassis Callas’s Paris is bathed in a melancholy autumnal glow, and she lives in a grand and spacious apartment which is more ...
One of the few women in Ancient Greek academe, Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned philosopher and mathematician — and she was killed because of it. People primarily remember Hypatia of Alexandria, ...
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The movie centers on the life of the legendary opera singer and Bilginer portrays Callas' great love, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Jolie further elaborated on her positive experience with ...
If it is true, as Aristotle thought ... Indeed, we are invited by certain philosophers of the Bergsonian school to abandon our monarchical theology and to bring our religion into line with ...
Yet, he remains tied to his roots: the small room in his mother’s house where it all began. His first album, In My Room, was both a tribute to that space and a manifesto for his artistic philosophy.
Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Greece by Professor Edith Hall and comedian Dan Schreiber to learn all about famous philosopher Aristotle and his world-changing ideas. Show more Greg Jenner is ...
As far back as Aristotle, Western thinkers have been deeply critical of the power that the wealthy hold over society. Historian Guido Alfani sat down with Jacobin to discuss the long history of ...
In our painting we see the richly clad Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE) resting his hand pensively on a bust of Homer, the epic poet who had attained literary immortality with his Iliad and ...
However, a rat once “lashed around and threw itself” at him. He was surprised that he was the one being chased but his quick reflexes saved him (from ‘First Person : An Astonishingly Frank ...