In Plato’s "healthy city," simple, seasonal foods promote steady minds and politics, offering an early case for the Mediterranean diet.

An illustration by Sir Gerald Hargreaves shows a utopian scene on a cove of the mythical land of Atlantis. Many scholars ...

Newly deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...

Italian researchers have identified the precise location of where the ancient Greek philosopher Plato was buried based off of fresh information gleaned from the Herculaneum papyri. Previously, it ...

Ancient Greek philosophers including Plato likened civic leaders to doctors, creating a healthy society through balance and moderation. Those ideas feed into what we expect from leaders today.

Sure, embracing a certain philosophy might help a person to better understand their world and their sense of purpose within that world, but can applying ancient Greek philosophy into your life ...

For ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, the soul lives in the ideal realm, as it is eternal, unchanging, and survives the death of the body.

The Melbourne Philosophical Café is set to tackle one of the biggest works of ancient Greek thought in their upcoming meeting ...

Plato is quoted as saying that "all philosophy begins in wonder". Indeed, the ancient Greeks were obsessed with cosmology-the study of the nature of the universe.