Plato Contostavlos, the father of N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos and keyboard player in the 70s blues band Mungo Jerry, ...

Tulisa's father, renowned musician Steve Contostavlos has passed away.. The keyboard player, who went by the name of Plato, played for the band Mungo Jerry. He was thought to be around 65 years ...

James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his masterpiece of political theory.

Plato is given a full-length biography for the first time by Robin Waterfield – but can we ever really know the man behind the philosophy?

Plato, often hailed as the greatest philosopher who ever lived, has not, until now, been given a full-length biography. The problem is a lack of primary sources, says Robin Waterfield, a scholar ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium, one of the Greek philosopher's most celebrated works. Written in the 4th century BC, it is a dialogue set at a dinner party attended by a ...

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.