Plato, who died at the age of 80 or 81 in around 348BC, also welcomed a guest in his last hours. The passages have been illegible since their discovery in Herculaneum in 1750.

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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.

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.

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 ...

Socrates or Plato may not have used Twitter or TikTok, but as Nathan Dufour Oglesby writes, they would have had things to say about how to navigate social media more wisely.

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 ...

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 ...