In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

The Crito is one of Plato’s best-known dialogues. This work is set just before Socrates’ infamous execution. The discussion it contains is, at certain points, personal; and yet is thoroughly ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th ...

Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...

With her broad and bedazzled smile, courtesy of her braces, and a shiny sequined headband, Morgan Lemner looks just like any other middle-school student. At first glance, there’s no way ...

1. Lovingreading or loving-reading (a double verb, conjugated as transitive, where what one loves-reads is someone or something, Lysias or the book). 2. Loving reading (in which case, it is reading ...

Plato's 'Apology' records what Socrates said: 'To put it bluntly I've been assigned to this city as if to a large horse which is inclined to be lazy and is in need of some great stinging fly and ...