Q. Why did ancient Greeks like Plato and Socrates have only one name? A. You can search the history books forever and never find a single allusion to little Billy Socrates or his precocious playground ...
Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...
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 about ...
The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed.
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How one of the most famous definitions of love came from an ancient woman who may not even be real
If you could go back in time and be a fly on the wall for any event in history, the Symposium would be a great choice. It’s ...
In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...
Socrates was remarkably full-blooded for an ascetic philosopher. In Xenophon’s Symposium, he says, “For myself I cannot name the time at which I have not been in love with someone.” By all accounts, ...
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