Socrates, born in Athens around 470 BCE, became one of the foundational figures of Western philosophy despite leaving no ...

Few philosophers have tried to understand the complexities of human emotions like Socrates. His deep observations of the ...

There’s a charming poem by Seamus Heaney about Socrates’ last day. It expresses a brief surprise that Socrates could believe in dreams. But the poet quickly acknowledges that the philosopher did live ...

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life Bettany Hughes Alfred A. Knopf, 528 pp., $35 Reviewed by Jonathan E. Lazarus Less than five decades after its Periclean Golden Age ...

Tino Sehgal’s latest interactive artwork in Athens pays tribute to the masters of philosophy – hopefully without the same deadly end result How do you keep ancient Greek civilisation alive in the 21st ...

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure does not tend to be rated as one of cinema's profounder treatments of the relationship between present and past. The story of two Californian slackers with a time ...

“Despite his insistence on the examined life,” Socrates has never been a figure the rest of us have known well, said Walter Isaacson in The New York Times. Western philosophy’s first great thinker ...

The shining names of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Archimedes have left a permanent mark in the annals of human civilization". These are not my words, but those of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, and ...