The man who at Delos set forth in the precinct of the god his own opinion composed an inscription for the forecourt of the temple of Leto in which he distinguished goodness, beauty and pleasantness as not all being properties of the same thing. His verses are: Justice is fairest, and Health is best, But to win one’s desire is the pleasantest. Theog. 255f. But for our part let us… Read more
We were excited to welcome Brian Prescott-Decie for an Open House entitled “Georgios Gemistos Plethon: The Role of Byzantine Scholarship in the Preservation of Platonic and Neo-Platonic Thought.” The event took place on Friday, October 15 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and was recorded. To get ready for the event, you might like to read the passages in this PDF: Texts for Plethon discussion You can watch the recording on our… Read more
The first to use the term, and to call himself a philosopher or lover of wisdom, was Pythagoras; for, said he, no man is wise, but a god alone. … All too quickly the study was called wisdom and its professor a sage, to denote his attainment of mental perfection; while the student who took it up was a philosopher or lover of wisdom. Sophists was another name for the… Read more
We were pleased to welcome Armand D’Angour, Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford, for a discussion about Socrates and Aspasia of Miletus, which is the subject of his forthcoming book. The event took place on Thursday, February 14 2019 at 11 a.m. EST, and was recorded. Focus passages for this discussion are available in this PDF handout: Socrates in Love Passages and… Read more