Sensitive to text and context, it brings to light the ways in which Socrates' engagements with foreigners, women, slaves, and citizens alike challenged the exclusions of Athens's democratic ideology ...

Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know ...

During Socrates' youth Athens was a city at the height of its power and the intellectual center of the Greek world. The spirit of openness which democracy encouraged had given rise to new fields ...

Socrates represented Brazil 60 times between ... He opposed Brazil's military government in the 1980s via the Corinthians ...