Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for “corrupting” Athens’ youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on the ...

The most famous of the sophists, Protagoras, famously said, “man is the measure of all things,” an ancient Greek way of saying, “reality is what you make it, bro.” They were essentially ...

But is it really? Is truth that unimportant? Surely the Greek sophists and the radical postmodernists are wrong. There is such a thing as truth and respecting it is an ethical imperative.

Even the Greek Sophists, for all their skepticism and iconoclasm, were anxious to show the continuity of their teaching with the wisdom of previous generations.

The Greek philosopher was the godfather of Stoicism and the original self-help guru. Here’s how you can apply his methods to ask better questions, set better goals, and find clarity of purpose.

Stephen Ross, Carlisle. QUESTION The rhetoric of Greek sophist Gorgias was said to be so great that it was 'magical'. Do we have any record of what he said?

In “The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself,” Robin Reames contends that Greek and Roman rhetorical techniques can help us speak — and listen — to one another today.

Isocrates, a Greek rhetorician and contemporary of Plato, boldly proclaimed what he saw as Greece’s leadership in education: “So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and ...