Pensive Athena
Coleen ZollerExplore the fascinations of Greece and the ancient world with Pensive Athena, including public philosophy, peer-reviewed academic research, pedagogy, and guides to labyrinthine texts.
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Love the Olympics? Thank a Humanities Teacher
Pensive Athena was taking a summer break from posts. Summer especially calls for the serious business of play.
This summer took me to Lausanne, Switzerland—home to the Olympic Museum.
There, one gets to know Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a...
Where Your Books Wind Up
When my first book, Plato and the Body: Reconsidering Socratic Asceticism was published by SUNY Press (State University of New York) in 2018, a book launch was held at my local coffeeshop, The Kind Cafe. It was an honor to celebrate my magn...
The Gift of the Peacock
Peacock at Botanical Garden of Crete
Whenever I have the good fortune to encounter peacocks while visiting Greece, I think of Plato, who was no stranger, even as a child, to Athenian political life because he grew up as the stepson of Pyri...
Sculpture of a Female Discus Thrower
In the northeast corner of Theotokopoulos Park, in Heraklion, Crete, a sculpture honors a female discus thrower. It is not everyday that one encounters artworks celebrating female athletes—not sculptures, not paintings, not films, not liter...
Resisting Tyranny with Plato’s Socrates
Image: statue of Plato in Athens
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Coleen Zoller is Professor of Philosophy at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA.
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