The previous installment in this series outlined the life and career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. It described how John...

There is one more Greek on our list, the biographer Plutarch. He lived much later, however, so to retain chronological order, we now...

Previous installments in this series have covered four Greek scholars whose thought helped shape the American Constitution. (For...

Unlike Socrates, Xenophon, and Plato—the subjects of the third and fourth installments in this series—Aristotle wasn’t an Athenian. (For...

As explained in the second installment, 18th-century schoolboys weren’t expected to be as proficient in Greek as in Latin. However, they...

By the beginning of the fifth century before the Christian Era (500 B.C.E.), Greek civilization had spread far beyond mainland Greece....

Examine the back of a dollar bill carefully. You’ll find three inscriptions written in the Latin language. The one to the right is “E...

Who created the ideas behind the U.S. Constitution? The history books relate how the Constitution was composed by its 55 “framers” from...