Socrates’ childhood was probably fairly typical for a boy from a family of modest means. He was born to…
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Storms can be scary. High winds, lots of rain, lightning, thunder, hail. In Greek mythology, Zeus is a storm god hurling…
Around the time the meteor fell, a young Greek tourist was traveling up the Nile River in Egypt. Armed with the…
Socrates offers a list of five virtues: wisdom, temperance, courage, justice, and piety. Are these just the same thing…
The lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither conceals nor reveals, but gives a sign. Heraclitus
Writing after Parmenides, Anaxagoras saw the importance of his predecessor’s conception. In a month Anaxagoras…
In the summer of 427 BC, when Socrates was 42 years old, a group of emissaries came from the Greek city-state of…
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