Despite Athens’ decline, Socrates’ ideas lived on. Plato carried forward his teachings and founded the Academy, one of the first institutions of higher learning.

After Socrates had been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the morals of the city's youth, he was next invited to propose a suitable punishment. This was a legal tradition in Athens and an ...

With his mentor Socrates, and student Aristotle, he laid down the foundations of Western philosopher and science. The Academy once sat on the outskirts of Athens on property Plato acquired in 387 ...

During Socrates' youth Athens was a city at the height of its power and the intellectual center of the Greek world. The spirit of openness which democracy encouraged had given rise to new fields ...