The legacy of Greek democracy—reflected in history, mythology, theater, and even the Olympic Games—offers timeless lessons ...

At the heart of Venice’s globally renowned St. Mark's Square sits Biblioteca Marciana, a library filled with the ghosts of a ...

Long perceived as unsettling, the female genital area has been subjected for millennia to more or less invasive acts aimed at ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic hieroglyphic — pointing ...

Classical Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle ... In Persecution and the Art of Writing, Strauss explores esoteric writing – the idea that philosophers often disguise their true thoughts ...

As one of the famous Greek philosophers, he was taught by another famous philosopher, Plato. Most of Aristotle ... that cut across history, science, art and culture. His idea that everything ...

By Bill Kilpatrick It’s hard to be a student of modern European history and have hope these days. An amusing cartoon with a father and a son chatting sums up the way that most students of history ...

and the problem that lies at the root of Platonic philosophy: How do we know what is real and what’s merely illusion? Plato’s most far-reaching work is today his most widely read, indeed the ...

Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it ...