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 ...

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However, new research claims to have uncovered Plato’s exact burial site: in the garden of his academy in Athens, near to a ...

and author of "The Philosophy of Plato," in 1939. Demos had been living in Athens with his wife since June 1967, where he was on the faculty of a program for undergraduates known as "College year ...

Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to ...

The River Ilisos was mentioned by Plato, and saw philosophers from Socrates ... daily called "one of the many crimes that took place in Athens in the name of progress". Tuvalkin/Wikimedia Commons ...

So, women and anyone who was not born in Athens or enslaved people were not citizens. But it was a more direct system. And I think part of why Plato was concerned about democracy is that democracy ...