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? Jump to content UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

This book offers a transcript of Strauss’s seminar on Plato’s Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett ...

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Rebecca Goldstein has written a timely book about our own age by taking us back to an earlier age—that of the ancient Greeks. She wants to know what the works of Plato can teach us about the ...

In his excellent new book, “Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece,” the classicist James Romm brings Plato down to earth.

Diogenes likely washed up in Athens in the mid-360s, around the same time as a teenage Aristotle. At this point, Plato was nearly 60 and Antisthenes around 80—if, indeed, he was still alive.

The 10 Best Books of 2024. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. ... Carol Atack’s “Plato: A Civic Life” traces Plato’s philosophy back to his biography.

In "Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece," acclaimed historian and classicist James Romm draws on personal letters of Plato ...