Everyone at the party was praising love, calling it beautiful and benevolent. Diotima says this cannot be the case. Love is ...

Alcibiades was a gifted politician and general, but he is ultimately remembered as a traitor to Athens for defecting to ...

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 ...

I am only 7 days late in the 24-hour news cycle. Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega were arrested after Belarus air traffic ...

Socrates’ life, trial, and prophecy reveal his pursuit of truth, divine guidance, and the lasting consequences of Athens’ ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t just admire Socrates, the philosopher forced by his fellow Athenians to drink hemlock in 399 BCE; she wants to be him. Entirely conscious of himself as an icon, Callard writes, ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...

Just ask Socrates. If his lover asked Tina Turner’s famous question, what’s love got to do with it, he would reply that it’s got nothing to do with you, lover. The true philosopher is not drawn to the ...

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, ...