In 2024, researchers revealed they had found new details of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s burial site. It was a ...

Plato’s repressive, hierarchical “utopia” is a dystopian regime. H ow the history of philosophy, and of society, might look if Diogenes had dethroned Plato is a difficult question to answer.

Plato’s well known skepticism of democracy seems the result of his fear of what happens when you put things to a vote. That’s how Socrates died — voted into a death sentence when his case was ...

The final, tense meeting between the sage and the tyrant was steeped in animosity, to judge by the account in Plato’s Third ...

“Plato was right all along,” exclaims the old professor in C. S. Lewis’s The Last Battle, when the true Narnia has been discovered and it has been realized that all that was good in the old ...

Plato was born between 429 B.C. and 423 B.C. The Parthenon stood over the city, but Athens’s golden age was over. As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426.