Early Christianity engaged Hellenistic culture generally, and more specifically Greek philosophy, from the end of the first century on. We see bits and pieces of this in passages such as the ...

Greek civilization was very different form the ... Up until then, medicine was linked to philosophy and the practice of rituals, casting off evil spirits and incantations (Theurgy).

The fourth volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought deals exclusively with Plato. Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an ...

The palace at Knossos on Crete was an important centre for the Minoan civilization DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data ...

But since 2014, those interested in ancient Greek philosophy, history, language, and culture have received a tremendous boost thanks to the Onassis Foundation Fellowship. By providing generous funding ...

In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

This book was first published in 1991. The study of ancient science and its relations with Greek philosophy has made a significant and growing contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and ...

With roots in the Indus Valley Civilization, India boasts one of the world's oldest cultures. Vietnam. Vietnam's history ...