{"id":25669,"date":"2023-06-07T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T06:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=232622"},"modified":"2023-06-07T09:12:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T07:12:56","slug":"plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Plato: the world\u2019s greatest philosopher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Robin Waterfield considers what we know really about the life of Plato of Athens, and why his work was so pioneering <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 07 June 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>He learned from Socrates, taught Aristotle and is often described as the key figure in the history of philosophy. But what do we actually know about the life of Plato of Athens? And why was his work so pioneering? Plato\u2019s latest biographer, Robin Waterfield, joins Rob Attar to explore these questions and more.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-232622-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/PlatoRobinWaterfield-f323b92.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/PlatoRobinWaterfield-f323b92.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/PlatoRobinWaterfield-f323b92.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Robin Waterfield is the author of <em>Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li class=\"&quot;p1&quot;\"><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/plato-of-athens-a-life-in-philosophy-robin-waterfield\/7296604?ean=9780197564752&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\"><b>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"&quot;p1&quot;\"><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Plato-Athens-Philosophy-Robin-Waterfield\/dp\/0197564755?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\"><b>Buy now on Amazon<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"&quot;p1&quot;\"><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fplato-of-athens%2Frobin-waterfield%2F9780197564752&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;s1&quot;\"><b>Buy now on Waterstones<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Help us develop the HistoryExtra podcast offering by taking part in our latest research:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/immediateinsiders.com\/uc\/admin\/b7a7\/?a=1&amp;b=&amp;c=3&quot;\">Get started now<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Robin Waterfield considers what we know really about the life of Plato of Athens, and why his work was so pioneering <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":25670,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/plato-the-worlds-greatest-philosopher.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Robin Waterfield considers what we know really about the life of Plato of Athens, and why his work was so pioneering","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/25669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}