The lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither conceals nor reveals, but gives a sign. Heraclitus
In the summer of 427 BC, when Socrates was 42 years old, a group of emissaries came from the Greek city-state of…
What made the Oracle at Delphi special? Some researches have stressed a trance-like state the Pythia entered into…
In contrast to the archaic poets who view eloquence as a divine gift, the fifth century BC is conscious of the…
Whatever bond the tragic poet and the philosopher shared as free-thinking intellectuals in fifth century Athens, they…
Plato presents Socrates arriving at the end of a display Gorgias has just given to great acclaim. Socrates’…
The luxurious texture of Gorgias’ speech was not its only attraction. The Helen is also a tour-de-force of…
