Just outside the walls of Athens on the northwest side of the city is the Public Cemetery (Dēmosion Sēma)…
Born in 436 BC, Isocrates was almost a decade older than Plato. His father Theodorus was a…
In the mid-fifth century BC, a new movement emerged that changed the educational situation in…
Imagine a time when there was no internet; when there were no mass media of any kind; no universities…
Some time around 387, Plato set sail for Magna Graecia. Presumably his trip was not a sightseeing expedition…
Now in control of most of Sicily, Dionysius turned to southern Italy. There he faced the Italiot…
In 397, Dionysius assembled a huge army of 80,000 men and a navy of 200 ships and sailed toward…
In the dark ages of Greece between the Bronze Age and the birth of the alphabet in the eighth century BC, Greek…