Plato, a renowned ancient Greek philosopher, shaped intellectual history. He was a student of Socrates and the teacher of ...

The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle both wrote about love. More than two millennia later, their teachings ...

Ecclesiastes and Plato independently discovered the same truth: Happiness comes from governing your mind, not controlling ...

The sophisticated language Plato wrote in gave way to a simplified "common" Greek—and with it, a simplified psychology. We ...

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

The ancient Greeks left a wealth of knowledge through their surviving writings on a wide variety of themes, including science, logic, philosophy, literature, and the arts. In addition, the city-state ...

Over 1,000 words, or about 30% of the text, has been deciphered, university officials said. Photo from the University of Pisa For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum ...

When we turn to the other most famous ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle (384 B.C. – 322 B.C.), we find little of the political regimentation that characterizes his teacher, Plato. For Aristotle, ...