I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager understanding of this great philosopher on my own: reading ...

How can you teach a philosophy class without mentioning Plato? Texas A&M University professor Martin Peterson is trying to figure that out. Plato was a father of Western philosophy, famously a student ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

For centuries, the Iliad and Odyssey were more than literature to the Greeks: they were formative texts, the stories through which young minds learned what it meant to be human, to be heroic, to be ...