Wildfires driven by increasing winds and unprecedented heat surrounded Athens, Greece, this past summer, blanketing its ancient marble monuments and olive groves with ash and acrid smoke. These are ...

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 ...

Mr. Nicolson is an English author who writes about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. His latest book is “How to Be: Life Lessons From the Early Greeks.” A few years ago, my wife, Sarah ...

A philosophy professor at Brigham Young University was praised by the Times Literary Supplement for his new book on early Greek philosophy. Author and critic George Steiner called Daniel W. Graham’s ...

Ancient Greek philosophy has been enjoying a renaissance of interest and analysis of late. One of the largest Facebook groups for beginners with an interest in the field, “Stoicism,” boasts 225,000 ...

Some of the best business advice is more than 2,000 years old. Many entrepreneurs embrace the teachings of Greek philosophy to help shape and guide their life and careers. Stoicism was founded in the ...

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

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