What would it have been like to attend the Academy, Plato's ancient school? You didn't have to pay, though you did have to have wealth to afford the leisure. A pupil of Aristotle, Dicearchus, stressed ...

Plato's possible final resting place was hinted at through deciphering ancient scroll, linking him to a garden at the Academy in Athens, recent research using advanced imaging technologies shows.

For centuries, Greece was the cornerstone of Western philosophy,” says Donald Robertson, founder of Plato’s Academy Centre, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the nation’s philosophical history. “To ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

Breakthrough in deciphering ancient texts tells researchers philosopher was buried near a sacred shrine in garden of his academy in Athens Rozina Sabur is The Telegraph's National Security Editor. She ...

What books were in Plato’s library and why is everyone getting wasted there? By Simon Critchley Mr. Critchley is a philosophy professor and author. The weekend traffic in the center of Athens was ...