Like Plato before him, who briefly taught Dionysis II of Sicily, Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great in the hope he could turn him into a philosopher-king. Neither succeeded. Aristotle died in ...

just as Plato advised. The Athenians did not accept decline philosophically. In 322, following Alexander the Great’s death, a popular majority in the Assembly overrode Phocion’s warnings and ...

A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked “The Plato Code” – the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher’s writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece’s ...