The last words of Socrates have baffled scholars for ages, particularly his reference to the god of medicine, Asclepius.

Alan Mendez, Ro Boddie, Michael Stuhlbarg and Joe Tapper onstage in the Public Theater production of "Socrates." (Joan Marcus/Courtesy of the production) What does Socrates have to do with modern-day ...

Amid the debt crisis, many Greeks have come to despise their leaders, mistrust their media and resent the stern teachings of Brussels bureaucrats. Now some are turning to a rather different kind of ...

Athens - Most of the Western world reveres Socrates as one of the fathers of philosophy, but in his native Greece he is an ever-present wise man, often painted along with Christian saints on the walls ...

Socrates is involved as the perfect foil, since the great thinker invented the well-known and sometimes withering ...

Few philosophers have tried to understand the complexities of human emotions like Socrates. His deep observations of the ...

Greece is the word. It’s the word on every G8 economist’s lips as negotiations continue in Athens over a third bailout. As the dust dies down over accusations by former finance minister Yanis ...