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Plato lent his name to Platonic love but a new book reveals that the ancient Greek philosopher never advocated love without sex. University of Manchester science historian Dr Jay Kennedy, who hit the ...

An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know about Socrates is based on the writings of Plato, who uses Socrates as a character in many of his writings. Like Socrates, Plato remained ...

Some researchers argue that the story of Atlantis came from Egyptian texts found on the Temple of Edfu. What are the facts ...

In his ancient writings like Timaeus and Critias, Greek philosopher Plato famously described the mythical lost city of Atlantis. Now, researchers in Spain may have uncovered evidence of this ...