Menexenus is a Socratic dialogue composed by Plato during his first writing period. It takes up the subject of epideictic rhetoric and in particular funeral orations.

Philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who flourished in the late years of the 4th and early 5th century CE at Alexandria.

The most famous Platonic myth. It is included in the Timaeus and the Critias and relates the existence of mythical Atlantis, its conflict with ancient Athens and its sinking to the bottom of the...

This is one of the late Platonic dialogues, also known in antiquity by the subtitle peri hēdonēs, ēthikos (On pleasure, pertaining to ethics). Plato’s stated aim here is the investigation of...