Ancient Greek doctors invented the renowned Mediterranean diet, as Hippocratic physicians prescribed healthy diets to treat ...

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, ...

Plato and the allegory of the Ring of Gyges may have had a surprising influence on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

The ancient Greeks left a wealth of knowledge through their surviving writings on a wide variety of themes, including science, logic, philosophy, literature, and the arts. In addition, the city-state ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”. Not only was the ...

For centuries, a set of ancient papyrus scrolls discovered at Herculaneum has puzzled archaeologists. Damaged by the famed eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., the scrolls had remained inscrutable — ...

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 was ...

In my new book How Plato and Pythagoras Can Save Your Life, I write that we've turned into a self-absorbed rather than a self-reflective society; a narcissistic "Me Generation" on steroids that's ...

In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...