University of Chicago Law School 1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637 773.702.9494 Being deprived of political rights for most of world history, women tried to contribute to political theory ...

Meet the Stoics Stoicism is a Greco-Roman philosophy that began around 300 BCE with Zeno of Citium (modern-day Cyprus). Zeno was a merchant who lost all of his goods in a shipwreck and arrived in ...

John Cooper, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and renowned interpreter of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, died at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center on Aug. 8 ...

That is why it is surprising to discover that in a regime as autocratic as the Roman Empire, where the Senate’s functions were sidelined, a peculiar opposition movement emerged in the 1st century AD, ...

As a scholar of ancient philosophy and a practicing stoic, I have found great solace in the works of Roman stoic philosophers such as Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, and Epictetus, teacher of ...

Scott LaBarge is a specialist in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, offering both survey courses on the ancient Western tradition in general and more focused courses on specific topics and figures, ...

The early Greco-Roman philosophers encouraged study and reflection as they sought wisdom, knowledge and meaningful discourse. Today’s Trumpists show a disdain for knowledge, science and civil ...