The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

And so it is that we send off to the land that gave the world Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euripides, Homer, Archimedes, and Melina Mercouri a former third-string host of a show on Fox News.

The school founded here by Plato, Socrates’s most famous student, is the most important philosophical institute in history. ... Aristotle; even Socrates himself.

A prominent writer and opinion-maker told the following anecdote in a recent talk. He had ordered some take-out food, and the man delivering it saw books by Plato and Aristotle on his shelves and ...