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 ...

He warns that the man and his philosophy have “fused” in both the popular and the academic imagination. “An ethereal figure has taken shape, a platonic Plato,” he writes.

Plato then fled. When Dionysius invited him again in 363, professing new interest in philosophy, Plato stalled for two years before agreeing to come.

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

Perhaps I am being unfair by measuring Messrs. Biden and Trump against Plato’s philosopher kings. Even Plato realized that he was creating an alternate reality to what Athenian democracy had become.

When Dionysius the Elder’s son, Dionysius the Younger, took power in 367 B.C., Dion summoned Plato to Syracuse to instruct the new ruler (then in his late 20s) in philosophy.