As philosophers come, few have such an outstanding pedigree as Aristotle. He was a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. He is the father of logic and of metaphysics. Medieval scholars saw no need to name him, and frequently called him simply The Philosopher.

Aristotle was born in 384…

For β, I want to have a look at someone who was not necessarily great in and of herself (though I think she had great potential), but who is an interesting character caught up in dramatic circumstances nearly forgotten in our time. Her name was Berenice.

Berenice was born into the Greek royal household…

If you’ve read Plato, or even about Plato, you have probably come into contact with the sophist by the name of Gorgias after whom one of Plato’s dialogues is named.

But Gorgias was more than a function of Socratic dialogue. He reputedly lived to be over a hundred years old, traditionally placed between 487-376…

If you were cheering for Draco, I apologise but I have already written about him. Instead, today we’ll be looking at Demosthenes.

Demosthenes was born in Athens in 384 BCE and orphaned at age seven. Fortunately, he had a prudent father who had arranged for his young son’s future if he…

It’s hard to believe that someone with such a radiant CV would be known as Βητα by his friends on account of being second best at everything, but that is what they say about Eratosthenes – the man who invented longitude and latitude, first calculated the circumference of the world, and may even have…