Just outside the walls of Athens on the northwest side of the city is the Public Cemetery (Dēmosion Sēma)…
Our sources tell us that after returning from his trip to southern Italy and Sicily, Plato purchased a plot of…
In the mid-fifth century BC, a new movement emerged that changed the educational situation in…
Imagine a time when there was no internet; when there were no mass media of any kind; no universities…
After Socrates’ eventful day in the world of the sophists we can make some observations. The sophists…
When the preliminaries are over, Socrates raises a fundamental question: can virtue be taught? Socrates…
“Young man,” Protagoras says to his prospective student Hippocrates, “if you come to me, your gain will be this. On…
The growth of the Socratic movement had immediate repercussions, as we shall see, resurrecting Socrates and…
Plato’s dialogue Euthydemus is set around 407,[1] and shows us Socrates’ interest in the…