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

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

The thinker behind the ‘Republic’ and other works of philosophy also played political adviser to a series of rulers in Sicily ...

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

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Without doubt, parent-less Plato met Socrates at an impressionable age. The execution of the man who taught Plato philosophy also served as a life-long example of the need to be circumspect, to avoid ...

The British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once quipped, “The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy” .

Plato even went so far as to call this persona the philosopher king. Socrates knew nothing. In Western philosophy, Socrates is often held up as the paragon of wisdom.