We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, Janan Ganesh gets two things wrong in his column “We are all sophists now — or should be” (August 21).

If you’ve ever attended a high-energy seminar where a speaker yells, “unleash your greatness!” while pacing in an expensive suit reflective of poor fashion sense, congratulations – you’ve witnessed ...

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 lit by ...

The Cambridge Classical Journal, Vol. 63 (2017), pp. 82-102 (21 pages) Traditional accounts of Greek declamation paint this important imperial genre as a flight from the alleged impotence of Greek ...

Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for “corrupting” Athens’ youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on the strength of ...