Socrates offers a list of five virtues: wisdom, temperance, courage, justice, and piety. Are these just the same thing…
Protagoras has offered a rhetorical tour de force: a story built on a traditional myth, with a moral, which he…
Socrates replies to Protagoras’ claim to teach virtue that he did not think that such knowledge could be taught or…
Undeterred by the warning, Hippocrates is still dying to meeting the sophist, and Socrates leads him to the house of the…
After Socrates’ voyage to Samos we hear nothing of his exploits for the next decade. We meet him…
The question arises, why would two philosophers go to the island of Samos? Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras…
Anaxagoras left behind a student, Archelaus. Probably a native Athenian, Archelaus continued the tradition of…
Meanwhile, back in Athens, Aeschylus wrote a play which featured both the question of the Nile’s floods and…
Around the time the meteor fell, a young Greek tourist was traveling up the Nile River in Egypt. Armed with the…
A luminous fire appeared in the morning sky before sunrise one day in the summer of 466 BC. Morning by…