Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Carol Atack’s “Plato: A Civic Life” traces Plato’s philosophy back to his biography. Philosophy, Ms. Atack writes, prefers to “extract arguments from the text and remove them from their ...