Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

The ancient Greek roots of the cross symbol, its significance in cosmology, religion, and philosophy, long before ...

Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.

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 ...

Many of them did so purely out of self-interest, in order to continue a barbaric trade, but some historical philosophers sought to justify slavery from the best intentions. The great Greek ...

Eunapius of Sardis, a Greek historian and rhetorician who lived between the 4th and 5th centuries AD, wrote a Life of the ...