Alcibiades

The joy of discussing life’s great questions with a philosopher friend

11 January 2025 9:00 am

A higher form of love than romance or conjugal felicity was what Socrates offered in his dialogues, says Agnes Callard

Where Alcibiades once walked, amateur tax spies are trying to entrap poor pistachio-sellers

14 March 2015 9:00 am

 Athens I am walking on a wide pedestrian road beneath the Acropolis within 200 meters of the remaining Themistoclean wall…

Today’s TV debates are pointless – here’s the real thing

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Ancients would have been astonished that parties never debate against each other in open, public forum except on the telly…