Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know ...

It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 ... The hero-philosopher Socrates’s speech is similarly colourful. It features him reminiscing on a youthful ...