The first major thinker to move to Athens from abroad was Anaxagoras. Arriving in 464 BC, he became a friend of Pericles and outraged religious opinion by claiming (correctly) that the moon was ...

Anaxagoras, a Greek philosopher from the 5th century BCE, proposed the idea that life exists everywhere in the universe, coining the term panspermia to describe the concept of life traveling ...

Tutored by the philosopher Anaxagoras, whose studies in natural science are said to have made the great statesman renounce all superstition, Pericles became a patron and fervent supporter of the ...

What would they make of him and what effect would his arguments have on their work? The first neo-Ionians, as they have been called, were Empedocles and Anaxagoras. Despite some salient differences, ...

Among the greats might be placed Aurobindo of India; Origen of early Christianity; Shakespeare of England; and the ancients: Socrates, Plato, Anaxagoras or Heraclitus. Among the well-known lesser ...

According to shipping company Xclusiv, 14 dual-fuel containerships using LNG have already been ordered by Greek interests ...