The University has recently received the following communication from the Academy of Athens, addressed to leading universities and academies throughout the world. The letter is signed by Marines ...

a garden at the site of the Platonic Academy in Athens. The text also reveals that Plato was sold into slavery in either 404 or 399 BCE -- not 387 BCE, as historians believed prior to Tuesday's ...

When Plato returned to Athens and entered the education business, Ms. Atack argues, he was integrating new ideas into a postdemocratic rhetoric of political virtue. The success of his academy ...