The Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about whether an object which has had all of its original components replaced remains the same object. Theseus, the mythical Greek founder-king of Athens, ...

Do you recall the story of Theseus and the Minotaur? How King Minos of Crete demanded, as tribute from Athens, seven young women and men to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. How Theseus, the son of King ...

Theseus is remembered as the hero who defeated the Minotaur, but his story is far more complex than a single victory. From lifting a sword hidden beneath a massive stone to navigating the deadly ...

THE KING MUST DIE (338 pp.)—Mary Renault—Pantheon ($4.50). The best excuse for retelling a myth is to be unfaithful to it. When Joyce reworked the Odyssey, turning Ulysses into the Jew Leopold Bloom ...

In the world of philosophy, many questions of identity and change have been posed in various ways over thousands of years. The Ship of Theseus paradox is one of them. It is also one of the most ...