Justice and the Justification of War in Ancient Greece: Four Authors
The Greeks talked about war and they talked about it in terms of right and wrong. But given the intensely military nature of Ancient Greek society and the fierce concern with justice in Greek philosophy, it is surprising that no Greek thinker fully articulated the idea of Just War.
Hellenism and the Shaping of the Byzantine Empire
While the role of Byzantine Hellenism on the art, literature, and society of the Empire has been the subject of tremendous study, the question of its origins has, nonetheless, rarely been raised, and the strongly Hellenic Byzantine identity seems, to a large extent, to have been taken for granted historiographically.
Suetonius and the Death of Pliny the Elder
This account of Pliny the Elder
Re-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her CommunitiesRe-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities
Re-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities Minardi,
The Greek Achievement: The Birth of Classicism
This article is based on a lecture delivered at the The Greeks Institute, a series of lectures presented to secondary school teachers in the Bridgeport Public Schools during the spring of 1989. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities Council, Sacred Heart University, and the Bridgeport Public Schools, the purpose of the institute has been to provide teachers with an interdisciplinary exploration of classical Greece for the purposes of professional enrichment and curriculum development.
A Critical Assessment of Cicero's Attempt to Reconcile the Political and Philosophical Callings
A? careful ?reading ?of ?Cicero
Why did Plato write?
Plato has pointed out the dangers of written works. In his Seventh Letter he states that he never himself wrote in ‘the sublime questions of philosophy’ and that no serious man will seriously write on serious problems, because he would so lay his thought open to the misunderstanding of the crowd
Cicero and the Roman Republic
As an active politician, Cicero composed and published many law court and political speeches; but he also produced treatises on philosophical, political and oratorical matters, and he wrote numerous letters to friends, family and fellow politicians and even tried some poetry.
Theon of Alexandria and Hypatia
The mathematician and philosopher Hypatia flourished in Alexandria from the second part of the 4th century until her violent death incurred by a mob in 415.
Aristotle and the Murder of Alexander
In the study of Aristotle’s thought there has been no systematic effort to examine the allegations in relation to Aristotle’s political philosophy.