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88Mythical Gods And Creatures
In Greek mythology living beings come under two categories, that is, they are either gods and heroes, or creatures. Gods have most characteristics of humans, but along with this they also have supernatural...
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84Greek Philosopher: Epicurus
The founder of the Epicurean philosophy in Athens in 306 BC, which taught that virtue should be followed because it leads to happiness and that good was pleasure and evil was pain. He began his studies with a...
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81Greek Philosopher: Diogenes
The celebrated Greek cynic philosopher who is said to have lived in a tub, wearing the coarsest clothing and living on the plainest food. Many of his sayings have been preseved, and serve for occasional...
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81Greek Philosopher: Pythagoras
Greek mathematican and philosopher, best known for his discovery that the square of the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Greek philosopher...
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81Greek Philosopher: Democritus
The Greek philosopher to whom the conception of the Atomic theory is attributed. He visualised atoms - the word is Greek for 'indivisable' - as moving through space, then colliding to form the universe and...
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75Greek Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of the truth or principles underlying all knowledge, an investigation into the nature of reality. The word 'philosophy' derives from the Greek philosophos which means "a lover of...
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79Epicurus – The Happy Philosopher
Few philosophers have presented the world with a better answer to “how to be happy” than the Greek philosopher Epicurus. He believed everyone could be happy, it’s just that we were pointed in the wrong direction.
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76Greek Philosopher: Zeno of Citium
Zeno was the founder of Stoic philosophy in Athens. He was born in Citium on the island of Cyprus. It is reported that he was originally a merchant, but was shipwrecked and lost all his property traveling to...
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82Greek Philosopher: Thales
Greek philosopher, astronomer and geometrician, born in Miletus, Asia Minor. Thales is the first philosopher of whom we have record who set himself the problem of explaining the universe in terms of one...
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76Greek Philosopher Socrates
Socrates was a Greek philosopher and moralist. He wrote no philosophical works himself, but the discussions he held with the young men who gathered round him afÂfected profoundly the subsequent development of philosophy, particularly through their influence on Plato. Philosophers before Socrates speculated—naively, though interestingly, about the composition and workings of the natural universe, but Socrates made others conscious of the absence of any agreed standard of truth in such matters.
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