Ancient Philosophy
Articles tagged Ancient Philosophy.
Why Plato’s Atlantis Was Never Meant to Be Found
Mar 23-By Caiden Pannell
Plato placed Atlantis in the Timaeus and Critias to test an ideal city against an imperial power. The original texts explain its kings, destruction...
Aristotle’s Lost Works: The Dialogues and Research We No Longer Have
Nov 16, 2025-By Caiden Pannell
Aristotle's lost dialogues were celebrated in antiquity, while many research collections vanished. What survives, how it was transmitted and what scholars can reconstruct.
Socrates’ Execution by Hemlock in 399 BCE
Nov 15, 2025-By Caiden Pannell
In 399 BCE, Socrates drank poison after an Athenian court condemned him. Plato's account, hemlock toxicology and the trial reveal what we know.
9 Presocratic Thinkers and Traditions of Ancient Greece
Oct 19, 2025-By Caiden Pannell
Thales, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and five other early Greek philosophical traditions asked how nature, change, knowledge and justice work.
