Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

Iqbal thought that a human being’s creative spirit was weakened by turning their attention away from the realities of life ...

Think you know it all? Plato's cave and new psychology research reveal why true self-awareness starts with admitting what you don’t know.

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 ...

Plato, a student of great philosopher Socrates, founded the Academy in Athens and wrote philosophical dialogues. His work ...

If you want to find ground zero for feminism in the West, Ancient Greece around the time of Plato probably isn't the best place to look. On the other hand, it's not the worst place either — and this ...

TORONTO – Manhattan was a much wilder place 30 years ago, when a former kosher-meat salesman named Larry Levinson opened Plato’s Retreat, which quickly became the world’s most famous sex club.