The myth of the “noble savage”—of humanity once pure, simple, and good before civilization’s corruptions—did not begin with Rousseau but long before the Enlightenment, when Ancient Greek and Roman thinkers had imagined a world in which man lived in...
Aristotle conceives of God as the Prime Mover—the cause of all motion and change in the universe—forming the Greek philosopher’s foundation of Western metaphysical thought.
Aristotle believed that everything in the world is in a state of flux. He argued...
Plato's story of Atlantis is famously set a very long time ago in the past. The figure "9000 years before Solon" is thrown around a lot in discussions of when Atlantis supposedly existed. However, did Plato really set his...
Long before the establishment of the United Nations and modern diplomatic services, the ancient Greeks had developed laws for dealing with other political communities. Their world was divided into independent city-states, known as poleis (plural of πόλις, polis) such...
A study examining the roots of gender inequality in the ancient world finds that Plato challenged the exclusion of women from education and public office, while Aristotle defended male authority as part of the natural order. The contrast, researchers...
Few ancient Greek philosophers that were critics of Christianity remain as fascinating as Celsus. He wrote against Christianity during the second century. His work carried the title The True Word(Logos Alēthēs). The original text disappeared from history. Yet, early...
The Greco-Persian Wars have remained in history as the conflict between the West and the East and the Greek victories are considered to be the defense of western civilization. However, the two enemies that lost tens of thousands of...
Cold water therapy was popular among ancient Greeks, and this is one of the reasons they established elaborate bathhouses for wellness and relaxation.
Greek physicians like Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, extolled the virtues of cold bathing. They believed...
