Thales of Miletus
Ancient Greece
Mathematics in Ancient Greece and Its Influence on Modern Science
Advances in mathematics that can be attributed to ancient Greeks are many and have profoundly shaped the scientific world as we know it today.
Let's take a look at ancient Greece, a place where the idea of zero was yet...
Ancient Greece
The Milesian School: Ancient Greece’s Pioneers of Philosophy
The Milesian School was a branch of pre-Socratic philosophy founded in the sixth century BC in the Asia Minor town of Miletus. It produced three thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece, and they formed the...
Greece
Filotimo, the Hard to Translate Greek Word
Filotimo or philotimo is a Greek noun comprising of the words philo (verb translated as "to like" or noun translating as "friend") and timo (verb translating as "to honor"). It is hard to explain, impossible to translate in one...