The kylix drinking cup in ancient Greek symposiums revealed who was an aristocrat and who didn’t belong to the elite circle.

On March 11, supporters of academic freedom filled Meharry Hall for a “Read-A-Thon” of “The Symposium” by Plato. 20 readers ...

By Jug Suraiya In Plato’s Symposium, a conversation between real and imagined participants, one of the speakers, Aristophanes, recounts how the concept of love came into being. Humans originally were ...

Plato was a famous Greek philosopher from ancient Athens who shaped Western philosophy. He was a student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle. Plato wrote many works in the form of dialogues that ...

Socrates was a philosopher warrior, exemplifying courage, endurance and the pursuit of virtue through action as well as thought.

Professor of Philosophy Martin Peterson, Ph.D., gave an independent lecture on Plato’s “Symposium” and addressed concepts of ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Renaud Capuçon, Violin Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor Linz Bruckner Orchestra Philip Glass, Composer Serenade Linz Bruckner Orchestra Leonard Bernstein, Composer ...

You may already know the story. It's a classic of Western literature from the 5th century B.C. Plato's "Symposium" relates a myth to explain the longing of love. The myth is supposed to be funny as ...

Plato’s Symposium is attended by at least one professed technocrat: Eryximachus, the doctor, whose central observation about eros is drawn from “our techne, medicine” (186a8). He takes that as his ...

In a world driven by speed, efficiency, and constant deadlines, the idea of slowing down to focus on beginnings can feel counterintuitive. Yet more than two thousand years ago, the philosopher Plato ...

The Jan. 14 editorial “Plato falls victim to campus culture wars” underscored a troubling irony. The Socratic method, developed by Socrates in the 5th century B.C. and conveyed through his student ...