Preview   Hot on the heels of Robin Waterfield’s Plato of Athens, published in 2023 and presenting itself as the first ‘biography’ of Plato in English since 1839, comes another ‘life’ of Plato, this one by the Cambridge historian Carol Atack.[1] The two works inevitably cover much common ground (about Plato’s family, the regime of … Continue reading Plato: a civic life