A statue of Plato outside the Academy of Athens in Greece. In Atlantis, the 4th-century philosopher created a parable on power that became the inspiration for countless fruitless expeditions.

They had several temples in ancient Greece where people made their offerings and invoked the power of inspiration. In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates described inspiration as a form of Divine madness ...

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 ...