When many people talk about the ancient Greek Cynics, these peculiar philosophers, they are thinking only of Diogenes of ...

Ancient Athens was a vibrant and dynamic society, famous for producing great works of art, philosophy, and culture.

The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and one bad. According to Dio, one form of ...

Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was staying in a different part of Italy – to express how much he loved and missed her: I ...

Without the ancient Greeks, our world would look completely different. They invented modern mathematics and were among the first to live in a democracy (although it was a male-only democracy, it's ...