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

China launched two major international alliances on Greek studies and Plato’s philosophy in the southwestern city of Chongqing on Wednesday, marking a new chapter in cultural and academic exchange ...

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

‘Plato and the Tyrant’ humanizes the famous philosopher. James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

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

Even in ancient Greece, Plato questioned whether gender norms around masculinity were good for men’s individual freedom ...