Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

Without doubt, parent-less Plato met Socrates at an impressionable age. The execution of the man who taught Plato philosophy also served as a life-long example of the need to be circumspect, to avoid ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...