Sep 20, 2022Thucydides and the Morality of PowerIn a single episode of the Peloponnesian War, Athens slaughtered all Melian men of military age and sold Melian women and children into...
May 2, 2022The Ship, the Shore and the PhilosopherDr. Orton investigates the geometrical heist that stole our fate back from the gods. In the time of Homer, the Greeks were at the mercy...
Nov 25, 2021The Radical Roots of Ancient ConservatismSophist, rhetorician and fifth-century Greek philosopher Protagoras of Abdera was not afraid to write books deemed dangerous enough for...
Aug 27, 2021Plato and the Terrifying Beauty of Mathematics - How A Mathematical Discovery Tormented the Ancient World - Orton Academy’s Head of Research Dr. Jane Orton reflects on the mathematical...