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Editorial

Plato on a Plate

by Rick Lewis

The bare facts are these. Plato was a wrestler. The name by which we know him was his ring name, meaning ‘Broad Shoulders’. At some point he fell in with a scruffy and talkative old fellow called Socrates. Socrates and his friends used to gather in the Agora – the marketplace in Athens – to discuss philosophy.

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