Socrates’ personality had a strong impact not only on Plato but also on the so-called minor Socratic philosophers. This group includes Antisthenes, an Athenian, Aristippus of Cyrene, Euclides...

The third most important gymnasium in Classical Athens is situated outside Athens’ city walls, on the south bank of Ilissus River. Youths lacking Athenian parentage on both sides exercised...

Muslim philosopher (870-950), one of the leading Arab thinkers of the Middle Ages, became known as the Magister Secundus. He dealt with both metaphysics, psychology, logic and practical philosophy...

The Platonic Academy operated from its founding in 387 BC until the mid-first century BC. Specialists distinguish the Old Academy (until 265 BC) of Plato’s immediate successors, from the New...