NIWA, Takako 2004. A Study on the "Hypozomata" the Most Important Hanging-Gear of the Greek Trireme. The Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 111, Issue. 0 ...

Plato's Republic is a central text in the Western philosophical tradition and also a specimen of its author's exceptional literary and dramatic skill. The first book introduces, and conspicuously ...

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Thought experiments can be found in writings dated all the way back to the origin of philosophy in Ancient Greece. For example, in The Republic, Plato asks readers to imagine a ring, such as the one ...

Dr Kennedy spent five years studying Plato’s writing and found that in his best-known work the Republic he placed clusters of words related to music after each twelfth of the text – at one-twelfth, ...

From these beginnings, Plato gradually developed distinct philosophical ideas, such as his Theory of Forms, which features in middle dialogues such as the Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic.

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Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried ...

All you can see are shadows cast against the wall from the light outside. Plato tells this story in “The Republic”: “Imagine that there are people living in a cave deep underground.

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Price gouging is a practice that extends all the way back to Antiquity. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato prohibited craftsmen from “setting a greater price” than the actual value of a good ...