In Book X of the Republic, Plato expels the poetry of Homer and his followers- “the poetry of pleasure” as he calls it- from his ideal state by observing that there is an ancient quarrel between ...

Socrates’ recurrent dream shows that valuable insights from dreaming can blossom forth at any time of life, all the way ...

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not ...

The ancient Greeks were well versed in the spectrum of gender and queerness, often taking up the theme of sexuality with ...

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: Multimodal Anthropology What prompted the idea for the course?

The idea can be traced back to sources such as Plato’s Republic ... to His Lover,’ for which the German equestrian poet ...

Like Xenophon’s earlier work, Plato’s is also set at the dinner party of a famous Athenian poet. One of the guests present, Aristodemus, is sometimes regarded as the token akletos—but ...

Poet Laureate was a man of undeniable industry but without talent to match. You might say Michael Massey Robinson possessed ...

Why Donatien Grau, an adviser at the Louvre, decided to write “De Civitate Angelorum,” a book about Los Angeles, the Roman ...

A late-blooming poet reflects on his journey of pursuing an MFA centered in the Catholic literary tradition, and how it fits ...

Essays on Plato in Western Greece with a new translation of the Seventh Letter by Jonah Radding OPEN ACCESS 2019 The Poetry in Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Christos C. Evangeliou OPEN ACCESS 2021 ...

The ancient Greeks were well versed in the spectrum of gender and queerness, often taking up the theme of sexuality with ...