The Daily Telegraph

Mystery of Plato’s final resting place solved after ‘bionic eye’ penetrates 2,000-year-old scroll

Breakthrough in deciphering ancient texts tells researchers philosopher was buried near a sacred shrine in garden of his academy in Athens Rozina Sabur is The Telegraph's National Security Editor. She ...
La Brújula Verde

One of the Herculaneum Papyri Indicates the Exact Location of Plato’s Grave: in a Garden Next to the Museion, in the Academy

View of an area of Plato's Academy in Athens, where his tomb may be. Credit: George E. Koronaios / Wikimedia Commons More than 1,000 words, accounting for 30% of the text, have emerged from the ...
CounterPunch

Do We Need a Platonic – Aristotelian Academy?

Plato, 428-348 BCE, grew up in a war-ravaged Athens fighting the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BCE. This civil conflict nearly wrecked Greece. Athens and its Greek allies fought Sparta and its ...