He warns that the man and his philosophy have “fused” in both the popular and the academic imagination. “An ethereal figure has taken shape, a platonic Plato,” he writes.

The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

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Plato then fled. When Dionysius invited him again in 363, professing new interest in philosophy, Plato stalled for two years before agreeing to come.

Unlike Plato, neither of these men was primarily a philosopher: Xenophon was a soldier, whose most famous work, the Anabasis, deals with his experiences in an ill-fated mercenary army in Mesopotamia.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Almost 2,500 years after his death, Socrates continues to fascinate. The Greek thinker is seen, by some, as the father of philosophy, a martyr for ...