The Open Plato Project aims to create a new kind of digital translation and commentary of ancient Greek philosophical texts, intended for both expert and non-expert audiences and produced in collaboration with scholars from multiple disciplines. This is in service of our basic mission to widen the audience of people who are able to find joy and meaning in the study of these texts. Our core belief is that democratizing the study of philosophical texts is beneficial both to society and to scholarship. The first phase of this project will be to create an online, open-access, and open source translation of and commentary on Plato’s Alcibiades.

The project includes participants from Boston University, Brown University, Idaho State University, Indiana University Bloomington, Northwestern University, Northeastern University, University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and UC San Diego.