In 399 BCE, Athens put one of its greatest thinkers, Socrates, on trial. The charges? Corrupting the youth and disrespecting ...

Now known as the Herculaneum scrolls, they are “the only large-scale library from ... Born in Athens around 427 B.C.E., Plato ...

After Socrates had been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the morals of the city's youth, he was next invited to propose a suitable punishment. This was a legal tradition in Athens and an ...

With his mentor Socrates, and student Aristotle, he laid down the foundations of Western philosopher and science. The Academy once sat on the outskirts of Athens on property Plato acquired in 387 ...