In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of ...

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Of all writers of speculative philosophy, both ancient and modern, there is probably no one who has attained so eminent a position as Plato. What Homer was to Epic poetry, what Cicero and Demosthenes ...

Aquest volum conté dos diàlegs platònics construïts al voltant de la condemna a mort de Sòcrates per part dels ciutadans d’Atenes. En la Defensa de Sòcrates, Plató recrea el discurs que el seu mestre ...

Apeiron was founded in 1966 and has developed into one of the oldest and most distinguished journals dedicated to the study of ancient philosophy, ancient science, and, in particular, of problems that ...

It was a grim day in the year 399 B.C. The philosopher Socrates had been unjustly condemned to die by the courts of Athens, much to the horror of Plato and his young friends. The charges against ...