What does a smart-mouthed character on a television cartoon series have to do with a Greek philosopher who died around 2,300 years ago? Maybe a philosophical outlook, says Greg Salyer, an associate ...

Can you give just a general definition of what's meant by the term the Hellenistic world? The Hellenistic world is that world that was created after the conquests of the near east by Alexander the ...

Vol. 46, No. 1, Problems of Matter and Evil in the (Neo)Platonic Tradition (Feb., 2001), pp. 93-104 (12 pages) Founded in 1955, Phronesis has become the most authoritative scholarly journal for the ...

Founded in 1955, Phronesis has become the most authoritative scholarly journal for the study of ancient Greek and Roman thought (ancient philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, epistemology and the ...

Stoicism is a school of thought that flourished in Greek and Roman antiquity. It originated as a Hellenistic philosophy when it was founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium around 300 BCE. The name is said ...