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Plato

Carol Atack

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      Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Plato lived in turbulent times, born during a war that led to Athens’s defeat and decline. A restored democracy enabled the execution of his teacher Socrates.Carol Atack explores how his life in Athens influenced Plato’s thinking, how he developed the Socratic dialogue into a powerful philosophical tool and how he used the institutions of Athenian society to create a compelling imaginative world. Now available in paperback, this accessibly written book shows how Plato made Athens the place where diverse ideas were integrated into a new way of approaching big questions about existence and the societies we create, then and now.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Carol Atack EAN: 9781836392057 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 240 WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 216 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Reaktion Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-03-01 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / Greece WIDTH: 138 mm SPINE:

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      Philosophy and theory of education, Ancient history, European history, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Carol Atack is a Fellow of Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches classical Greek and ancient philosophy. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2019) and Anachronism and Antiquity (with Tim Rood and Tom Phillips, 2020).

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      Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Plato lived in turbulent times, born during a war that led to Athens’s defeat and decline. A restored democracy enabled the execution of his teacher Socrates.Carol Atack explores how his life in Athens influenced Plato’s thinking, how he developed the Socratic dialogue into a powerful philosophical tool and how he used the institutions of Athenian society to create a compelling imaginative world. Now available in paperback, this accessibly written book shows how Plato made Athens the place where diverse ideas were integrated into a new way of approaching big questions about existence and the societies we create, then and now.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Carol Atack EAN: 9781836392057 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 240 WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 216 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Reaktion Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-03-01 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / Greece WIDTH: 138 mm SPINE:

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      Philosophy and theory of education, Ancient history, European history, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Carol Atack is a Fellow of Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches classical Greek and ancient philosophy. She is the author of The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece (2019) and Anachronism and Antiquity (with Tim Rood and Tom Phillips, 2020).

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