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Five Surprisingly Ancient Inventions from Greece and Rome

Written by Lydia Serrant, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Robots, computers, showers and vending machines? Believe it or not, this article does indeed belong on Classical Wisdom instead of a publication like Modern Magazine! Here’s why… Ever since the world’s first known analogue computer – the famous Antikythera mechanism – emerged from an ancient Greek shipwreck in 1901,

Written on October 16, 2020 at 8:33 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, astronomy, inventions, robots, Science

The Classical Wisdom of the Founding Fathers

Written by Alex Barrientos, Senior Editor, Classical Wisdom The United States of America will turn 244 years old tomorrow. From a historical perspective, the U.S. is quite a young nation. We’ve come a long way, and have much still to learn. To those of you not already aware, it may come as no surprise to

Written on July 3, 2020 at 8:46 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, aristocracy, constitution, democracy, Federalism, freedom, James Madison, liberty, republicanism, Roman Republic, Thomas Jefferson, United States of America

Anaxagoras and His Mind

By Monica Correa, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom In ancient Greece, the idea of a flat earth was simply assumed to be true. There were a select few that doubted this notion, and with their doubt came an ideological and theoretical struggle to sustain various points of view on the matter. This created a rich environment

Written on May 10, 2019 at 11:42 am, by Jocelyn Hitchcock

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Categories: Pre-Socratics

Tags: Anaxagoras, Ancient Greece, Natural Philosopher, Philosophy

Xenia for a Better World

Today’s Classics Challenge delves into the importance of Xenia… and how resurfacing this concept can make for both better individuals and society as a whole. But first… What is Xenia? Watch the video below to learn of this critical part of Ancient Greek (and indeed modern Greek) culture: While this was an essential part of

Written on January 8, 2019 at 4:49 pm, by plato

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Ancient Greece, foreigner, Homer, hospitality, Odyssey, xenia, xenophobia

Epicurus: The Nature of Death and the Purpose of Life

Early philosophy in ancient Greece sought to explain the nature of the universe. For instance, there was Thales of Miletus, who held the rather bold belief that the entire universe is made of water in one form or the other. This dramatic delve into the study of metaphysics was very popular with early philosophers and

Written on April 17, 2018 at 3:38 pm, by plato

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Categories: Philosophers

Tags: Ancient Greece, Epicurus, Samos

Sophocles Antigone: One Woman Against the State

by Anya Leonard “My nature is to join in love, not hate” – ‘Antigone’ in Sophocles Antigone. Maybe it’s no surprise then that this individual found herself on the wrong side of the state. The powers that be probably didn’t appreciate either, that this adversary came from the oppressed class, one of the current underdogs of

Written on May 15, 2017 at 5:27 pm, by anya

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Categories: Oedipus Trilogy

Tags: Ancient Greece, Antigone, Creon, Drama, Greek Tragedy, Oedipus, play, Sophocles

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