Greek Reporter

How Plato Foreshadowed the Fate of Jesus Christ

The Republic of Plato presents a thought experiment about a perfectly just man who faces a brutal fate that mirrors Jesus ...
Greek Reporter

The First Ghost Story of Ancient Greece Was the Haunting of Athenodorus

The tale of "The Haunting of Athenodorus" is one of the earliest recorded ghost stories, dating back to early Roman years of ancient Greece.

Views from Annapolis: Aristotle clocks in, potato therapy still going strong

I understand his selection of  Aristotle only in the way you leave an arts film nodding as if you got the premise, but really ...

Quote of the day by Greek philosopher Democritus: ‘Man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, mistakes and weaknesses'

Ancient Greek thinker Democritus believed human fate is shaped by character and choices. He argued people blame nature and ...

Where did the ancient Greeks and Romans think lightning came from? Hint: not just the gods

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, thunder and lightning strikes were the prime weapon of Zeus (the king of the ...
Opinion

The rot that could bring Western civilisation down began with these ancient Greek teachers

In 399BC, a panel of Athenian judges voted to execute Socrates. Among the charges levelled against the great philosopher was the accusation that he was a Sophist. Both he and the Sophists, after all, ...
Aeon

Lansana Keita rejected Eurocentric ideas, tracing the philosophical tradition back to African Kemet or ancient Egypt

Lansana Keita rejected Eurocentric ideas, tracing the philosophical tradition back to African Kemet or ancient Egypt ...

Quote of the day by Plato: 'The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself' - A warning to never avoid duty from the ancient Greek ...

Todays Quote of the Day by Plato highlights the responsibility that capable individuals carry in society. In his famous work The Republic, the philosopher warned that when thoughtful and ethical ...

Where did the ancient Greeks and Romans think lightning came from?

Ancient cultures, including those of Zeus and Jupiter, viewed lightning as divine power, though thinkers like Seneca sought ...
La Brújula Verde

Hipparchia, the Greek philosopher of the Cynic school remembered in the annual festival in Athens that celebrated the incorporation of women into philosophy

Hipparchia is a genus of butterflies in the Nymphalidae family, so large that it includes nearly six thousand species worldwide. The name was given in 1807 by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian ...
as.com

Empedocles, ancient Greek philosopher: When everything falls apart, it’s not always the end, sometimes it’s rearrangement

There are moments when life seems to fall apart without warning: a job that ends, a relationship that runs out of road, a stage of life that suddenly stops making sense. The instinctive reaction is ...