'Plato of Athens', by Robin Waterfield: the gold of the thinker who brought philosophy out of poverty. The author fills a void with an authentic biography of the Athenian, which highlights his ideas as daughters of his time in an exhausted Greece.

Sometimes Plato appears humble, other times arrogant, for some he was altruistic, for others, greedy, in the hagiographies he is a true teacher, for the hostile tradition nothing good can be learned from him. It is not a minor merit of this essay to show us a philosopher committed to politics and the regeneration of Athens.