Weren't philosophers just thinking about difficult things because they had too much free time? I read a note article that ...

Prologue Translating the ideals of Greek history, politics, democracy, theater, athletics, the Delphi peace vision, philosophy, science, technology, ...

Ask Americans what Greece has contributed to civilization, and the answers come readily: democracy, philosophy, theater, the ...

The Parthenon towering on the hillAfter leaving Paros, I visited Athens, the capital of Greece.What left the deepest ...

Before the speeches and philosophy, Athens began with smaller, quieter acts. A servant emptied a chamber pot into the street, traders set up their goods, and the morning noise grew as the city’s real ...

At the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, lies the Agora, the civic center where ancient democracy took shape. Once crowded with merchants, magistrates and philosophers such as Socrates, it ...

The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex bequeathed by Greek Antiquity to the ...

Looking down on their fellow Americans from the Pnyx on the hill, will the demos reward them or cast them aside?