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 ...

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's Conception of Philosophy Dr. H. Gauss By. Pp. xxii + 272. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 6s. net. THE author of this ably written book is right in considering philosophy less as ...

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 ...

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.