James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his masterpiece of political theory.

In 2024, researchers revealed they had found new details of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s burial site. It was a ...

The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

Without doubt, parent-less Plato met Socrates at an impressionable age. The execution of the man who taught Plato philosophy also served as a life-long example of the need to be circumspect, to avoid ...

The thinker behind the ‘Republic’ and other works of philosophy also played political adviser to a series of rulers in Sicily ...

R enowned Greek philosopher Plato’s final resting place was possibly revealed after researchers deciphered an ancient scroll that survived Mount Vesuvius’ eruption, which decimated Pompeii ...

In "Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece," acclaimed historian and classicist James Romm draws on personal letters of Plato ...

Plato and the shaping of philosophy Born in 428/7 in Athens, Plato, his teacher, and his student became known for being the three who laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture, ...