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

the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the EU Erasmus+ Staff Mobility scheme and the Spanish Ministry of Education. So what was Plato’s argument? And could it hold the key to understanding why ...

Carol Atack’s “Plato: A Civic Life” traces Plato’s philosophy back to his biography. Philosophy, Ms. Atack writes, prefers to “extract arguments from the text and remove them from their ...

Plato is one of the most influential figures in ancient philosophy, and a new passage uncovered from a papyrus scroll could provide us with a description of his final hours. The scroll was buried ...