All about the world's ancient capital city.
Aristotle was born in 384 B. C. at Stagira, a Greek colony on the Macedonian coast near Mount Athos. His father, Nicomachus, was the physician of Amyntas II, king of …
Aristotle: Macedonian Philosopher, Founder of Lyceum Read More
Aristocles, nicknamed Plato (‘Broad-Shoulders’), was born at Athens probably in 428 B. C. After an unusually wide education he became a pupil of Cratylus, the Heraclitean philosopher. Soon, however, for …
Plato: The assiduous follower of Socrates Read More
Athens after the fall of the Thirty in 403 and during the early years of the Second Confederacy must have been on the whole a place of buoyancy and optimism. …
Plato’s Athens: The Festival City Read More