Religion News Service

New book claims the Old Testament drew extensively on Plato’s writings

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible, from academic publisher Routledge Press, proposes a provocative new theory regarding when, where and why the Old Testament was written. According to the ...
CNN

Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and final evening, experts say

Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed, ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Did Plato have a woman problem? Maybe, but his vision of politics was still radical for its time

If you want to find ground zero for feminism in the West, Ancient Greece around the time of Plato probably isn't the best place to look. On the other hand, it's not the worst place either — and this ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Newly Deciphered Papyrus Scroll Reveals the Location of Plato’s Grave

The Greek philosopher Plato was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. Leonidas Drosis via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Thanks to an ancient text and specialized scanning technology ...
The New York Times

THE IDEAL LIBRARY SELECTED BY DR. ELIOT---PLATO'S TRIOLOGY ON THE DEATH OF SOCRATES; Last Days and Last Words of the Great Athenian Philosopher as Reported by His Young ...

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