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The Plato Project is seeking support for:

  • Interviews with scholars and writers (confirmed guests include Oxford Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and author of How to Talk About Love: Plato’s Symposium (2025), Armand D’Angour and Gregory Shaw, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College and author of Hellenic Tantra: The Theurgic Platonism of Iamblichus (2024) | Support needed for 20 interviews, $10,000

  • Production and marketing for the publically available lectures on YouTube, the Becoming Human Podcast, and creation and distribution of the free reading guides | Support needed for one year of sustainable production and distribution of free resources to the public, $30,753

  • PLATONICON 2026 event deposit for the concluding in-person conference and celebration of the complete corpus of Plato’s work, Support needed for the deposit, $4,500

    Total support: $46,753

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Support can be given in a one-time payment or made monthly. || The Plato Parsha Project brings an entire year of FREE teaching and resources to the public on Plato's entire body of work (soemthing no university offers). Your investment makes this public humanities work possible. Thank you.

Why give?

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    Supporting this project helps sustain a public initiative to teach the entirety of Plato’s courpus in one year to everyone, an offer that you can not find at a single university.

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    Your support helps sustain a groundbreaking project on Plato that is inspiring personal growth and collective awakening. #escapethecave

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    The project integrates ancient wisdom with contemporary life, helping people worldwide revolution how they interact with themselves and the world. #escapethecave

Support The Plato Project and Receive Member Benefits:

(1) Symposium Patron - $500+

  • Lead the community as a major supporter, receive special recognition in all the videos and podcasts, your name listed on the project page, unique gifts from the project (mugs, posters, tote bag), a discount on your Platonicon conference pass, and the knowledge that you helped bring Plato the public (priceless)

  • Receive an annual Becoming Human Project Membership , which includes the Introduction the Plato course series + Becoming Human: Orgins, the show that launched the project, plus access to the weekly Plato Zoom meetings. ($296.99 value)

(2) Sage Supporter - $1,000+

3% Cover the Fee

Support can be given in a one-time payment or made monthly. || The Plato Parsha Project brings an entire year of FREE teaching and resources to the public on Plato's entire body of work (soemthing no university offers). Your investment makes this public humanities work possible. Thank you.