Thales of Miletus

Some scholars credit Thales of Miletus as the father of Western philosophy since he preceded Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other more famous philosophers. From a chronological point of view, this is true. He was indeed the first philosopher who laid...

Advances in mathematics that can be attributed to ancient Greeks are many and have profoundly shaped the scientific world as we know it today. Let's take a look at ancient Greece, a place where the idea of zero was yet...

The Milesian School was a branch of pre-Socratic philosophy founded in the sixth century BC in the Asia Minor town of Miletus. It produced three thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece, and they formed the...

Filotimo or philotimo is a Greek noun comprising of the words philo (verb translated as "to like" or noun translating as "friend") and timo (verb translating as "to honor"). It is hard to explain, impossible to translate in one...