In Timaeus, Plato described Atlantis as having once been “larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, ...

Michael Donnellan presented scans showing circular structures submerged on the ocean floor, aligning with Plato's descriptions.

In 2024, researchers revealed they had found new details of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s burial site. It was a ...

Well, in the Timaeus, Plato wrote about the “classical elements,” which is the umbrella term for the group usually comprised of earth, water, fire, and air.

And so Plato, in the “Timaeus,” sets out to describe the creation of the universe in terms of numbers and their combination. What is fascinating in the reading ...

Plato's School (detail), by Jean Delville (1898). Source: Wikimedia commons/Public domain After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the knowledge of Greek was lost in the West. In around 321 CE ...

The fabled city of Atlantis, long dismissed as mere myth, may finally have been discovered—just two miles off the coast of ...

In his dialogue Timaeus, Plato, following other Greek writers, describes the uterus as a little animal with a mind of its own that wanders throughout a woman’s body, "blocking passages ...

Timaeus (fifth century bc) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Locri, in Magna Graecia, now southern Italy. He was also a mathematician and astronomer. Plato studied with him while he was visiting ...

In the dialogue 'Timaeus,' Socrates raises the topic of 'what would an ideal state be like,' and Plato's great-grandfather Critias tells him that he knows just such a story, and tells him about ...