Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know ...

Plato's 'Apology' records what Socrates said: 'To put it bluntly I ... particularly the gold and ivory Statue of Zeus that sat upon his throne in the high temple, which was one of the Seven ...