Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to ...

The toolkit dismisses the study of classical Greek thinkers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates as 'armchair theorising'. It is the first official guidance produced by SOAS academics aimed at ...

Born in Athens around 427 B.C.E., Plato studied philosophy under Socrates. After his teacher ... of lost plays by Sophocles and tracts by Aristotle,” per the Times. “[Soon], we should ...

It had built the mighty Parthenon, created the world’s first democratic government, and produced brilliant thinkers like ...

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 ...