The text also provides more detail about Plato’s final night – and he wasn’t a fan of the music that was played.. It had previously been thought that the so-called “sweet notes” played ...

When the philosopher Plato wrote his most famous work, the women of Ancient Greece were second-class citizens. But he had a radical vision of how they should participate in public life.

A research team’s “bionic eye” deciphered thousands of new words hidden within an ancient scroll carbonized during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius—and the new text points to the long-lost ...

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible, from academic publisher Routledge Press, proposes a provocative new theory regarding when, where and why the Old Testament was written. According to the ...

Athenian philosopher, Plato had a lot of helpful life advice to give through his philosophical quotes and books. A look at our collection of the best Plato quotes on love, life and democracy.

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...