Plato's Academy was founded by the Greek philosopher himself in 428/427 BC in Athens, and is considered to be the world's ...

Strictly speaking, there can be no biography of Plato — only what Carol Atack calls a “biographical tradition.” Exactly when he was born, exactly where he traveled, and to what extent his famous ...

Detail from the Chigi vase. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain While discussing philosophy in the public square, Socrates would also have been training as a hoplite, a heavily armed foot soldier ...

One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

There is something about Recompile that might not be apparent when watching trailers, and that's how Phigames uses Plato's philosophy as a source of inspiration. Phi Dinh talks with Game Rant about ...

As Los Angeles’s Getty Villa prepares to unveil a complete reinstallation of its collection of ancient art in April, the museum is looking to the present with its first exhibition dedicated solely to ...