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 ...

University of Manchester science historian Dr Jay Kennedy, who hit the headlines last year after revealing he had cracked the code in the great thinker’s writings, has now published a decoder’s manual ...

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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 ...

One, Ethan Mills, discussed a famous dialogue in Plato's "Republic" – among the most influential works of philosophy ever produced – which describes a theory of how democracy devolves into ...

The link between dance and sport traces back to the works of Plato in Ancient Greece. The ancient athlete/warriors included dance and music in their physical training. Plato’s notion of the rhythm and ...