The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

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N-DUBZ singer Tulisa’s father Plato Contostavlos has passed away. The keyboard player, who was known as Steve, was well loved ...

This ties in with Plato’s statement about Atlantis being before the Pillars of Heracles. Most commentators understand this to mean that Atlantis was outside the Strait of Gibraltar. Although there are ...

Plato was born between 429 B.C. and 423 B.C. The Parthenon stood over the city, but Athens’s golden age was over. As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...

However, Plato did insist in his dialogue Phaedrus (370BC) that most people are eu amousoi (εὖ ἄμουσοι) an ancient Greek expression that means “happily without the muses”.

This quote highlights that challenges drive creativity and problem-solving. Wisdom often arises from the need to adapt and innovate in life. Wisdom is revealed through our actions, especially in ...

Atlantis is the world's most famous fictional island, invented by Greek philosopher Plato 2,300 years ago. But Spanish researchers claim to have found the source of his inspiration – a series of ...

Another challenge which arises for the reader of Plato is that nightmarish phenomenon known as Plato’s ‘irony’, the most unfortunate aspect of which is precisely that it hinders the reader from ...