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 ...

We are afraid to ask questions to the power brokers of our time, which makes us more likely to accept easy answers.

This all-day Saturday session begins by briefly considering philosophy in the emerging Greek world, from Thales to Socrates. What does Socrates offer that is new and how? Discussion, debate, dialogue, ...

The ancient world gave us lots of things: Democracy, science, literature. It also gave us the columnist. Before Fintan ...

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Loeb Classical Library, one of the most remarkable publishing projects in modern history. Yet as with everything book-related in the year 2011, the ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams examines the complex relationship between the classics and identity politics. And he is speaking to Walter Isaacson about racism, ...

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of ...

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 ...