The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

Eager to shock, Diogenes hectored refined Athenians in the market square. Plato dubbed him a Socrates gone made.

The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

Few scenes in the Christian imagination are as iconic as the three travelers kneeling before the infant Jesus, their camels ...

The ancient Greek ideal of World Unity is manifested in the conquests of Alexander the Great aiming to unite the world ...

Decades of conflict and displacement have obliterated the history of one of the world’s oldest human settlements ...

COMMENTARY: Marking the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the Pope contrasts orthodox faith with the claims of ...

Paganism” is a word with which to conjure. From The Iliad to the Wicker Man, it has been part of Western culture, and has in ...

At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric. ... It is only in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, to silence. —Albert ...

Dog of God,” Latvia’s second-in-a-row animated Oscar contender after the winning phenomenon “Flow,” continues to bark out loud after its successful launch at Tribeca and follow up bow at 30-plus ...