The complete online text of The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon.

The Greek historian, essayist, and military expert Xenophon (ca. 430-ca. 355 BC) was the most popular of the Greek historians. He facilitated the change from the Thucydidean tradition of history to rhetoric. The son of Gryllus of the Athenian deme of Erc...

The reputation of Xenophon the Athenian is higher in the present era than it was at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but whatever the fluctuation in the literary assessments of this versatile writer, his books have traveled through the centuries,...

Socrates died 2,400 years ago this June. More precisely, he was executed, a criminal condemned on a capital charge. How seriously Athens took her philosophers! It fills the modern scholar with envy more than dread, that one could die for such a cause....

Questions are used by teachers to drive the thinking and learning processes of their students. It is through questioning that students relay their thoughts and understanding of the subject matter. That is why the critical thinker is said to have a comprehensive level of...