469 BCE — Socrates is born
Socrates is one of the most influential, and also most enigmatic, figures in Western Philosophy. An Athenian who lived at...
December 14, 2022
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May 26, 428 BCE — Plato is born
Oddly, not the Platonic Ideal of the philosopher (although in fairness, he would have been the first to point that...
December 9, 2022
April 16, 384 BCE — Aristotle is born
The third of the three great Ancient Greek philosophers was the student of Plato (who, in his turn, had been...
December 4, 2022
February 14, 44 BCE — Julius Caesar attends his final Lupercalia
The ancient feast of the god Lupercus, Lupercalia was an annual three day festival that ran from February 13 –...
October 14, 2022
July 18, 64 — Nero fiddles while Rome burns
It’s an iconic image, symbolising madness, decadence and a corrupt lust for power. But did it actually happen? In all...
June 24, 2022
May 18, 1048 — Omar Khayyám is born
One of the most well-known Middle Eastern poets in the West, largely due to an apparently never-ending series of translations...
April 29, 2022
October 12, 1492 — Piero della Francesca dies
Piero della Francesca was an Italian painter, best known for his cycle of frescoes “The History of the True Cross”...
February 27, 2022
April 5, 1588 — Thomas Hobbes is born
Best known as the writer of “Leviathan”, Thomas Hobbes was one of the fundamental philosophers in the Western tradition. His...
January 14, 2022
January 16, 1605 — “Don Quixote” first published
Widely seen as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” (in full, “The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of...
January 4, 2022
April 23, 1616 — William Shakespeare dies
In the last few years of his life, Shakespeare wrote only in collaboration with John Fletcher – his last play...
December 24, 2021
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