Plato was a wrestler. The name by which we know him was his ring name, meaning ‘Broad Shoulders’. At some point he fell in with a scruffy and talkative old fellow called Socrates. Socrates and his ...

A host might invite guests to a feast after bumping into them in the public meeting place of classical Athens known as the agora ... by AKG/Album One of Plato’s great works, also called the ...

Famous philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle walked its grounds. They engaged in profound discussions, possibly ...

Mark Vernon sees Plato in an old light. It’s a frustrating time to be a fan of Plato. Public intellectuals routinely misrepresent him, and it’s hard to find courses that can unveil the richness of ...

Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to ...