Four heads of the Greek philosophers Diogenes, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on long, tapered columns, mounted on top of short, square bases. The sculptures are within separate niches, under pergola ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

THIS volume, from the pen of the regius professor of Greek in Dublin, continues the kind of work so well begun for English readers by Prof. Burnet's “Early Greek Philosophy.” It deals with the various ...

When we turn to the other most famous ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle (384 B.C. – 322 B.C.), we find little of the political regimentation that characterizes his teacher, Plato. For Aristotle, ...

A prominent writer and opinion-maker told the following anecdote in a recent talk. He had ordered some take-out food, and the man delivering it saw books by Plato and Aristotle on his shelves and said ...

Academy Park honors the quest for knowledge by Purdue faculty and the origin of that tradition in ancient Greece. Academy Park is inspired by The Academy, founded by Plato in the fourth century B.C.