by Adrienne Mayor Abstract: Mayor argues that Plato’s Laws imagine an idealised social model, seen as extant amongst the Scythians and the much-renowned Amazons, in which women made equal contribution to the military…
Introduction and artwork by Paul Chan, Translation by Sarah Ruden, Essay by Richard Fletcher One of Plato’s most controversial dialogues, Hippias Minor details Socrates’ claims that there is no difference between a…
Translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller Abstract: Lives and the Eminent Philosophers of Diogenes Laertius is a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins of philosophy in Greece. The work…
By Kathleen Wider Abstract: This paper argues that there were women involved with philosophy on a fairly constant basis throughout Greek antiquity. It does so by tracing the lives and where extant the writings of these…
By Ekaterina V. Haskins Abstract: As one of the founding philosophers of the Western tradition, Aristotle raised many of the issues that still animate scholarly debates in the humanities. By contrast Isocrates, despite…
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