Plato's Gorgias (In Our Time)
380 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Plato's most striking dialogues, in which he addresses the real nature of power and freedom, and the relationship between pleasure and true self-interest.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 380 BCE
- Wars of the Diadochi (322 BCE)
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)