The distinction between epic and tragedy seems very clear to us. Even if we lay aside the definitions those words carry in everyday English ...

Even as Plato condemns the cave-culture-game, he expects the philosophical reader to understand that they (Plato and the reader together) ar...

This post takes us from homeric epic to a key moment of its reception in classical Athens, Plato. In it, I begin mini-series about Plato’s ...