The ancient world gave us lots of things: Democracy, science, literature. It also gave us the columnist. Before Fintan ...

Might gays make better soldiers? David Cohen, a classicist from the University of California at Berkeley, has reminded us that Plato thought so-or at least Phaedrus, a leading voice in the “Symposium” ...

Can the bull fighting said to have taken place on Atlantis be explained by Minoan customs? This article examines the evidence ...

Let’s sit down and have a chat. Across time, these ‘chats’ have always been central to understanding. Plato’s Dialogues, with Socrates as the primary protagonist, laid the groundwork for philosophical ...