Bernard Suzanne put his reading of Plato on the Web in 1996 and apparently never got tired of the argument.
The site is not a generic philosophy encyclopedia. It is a long-running personal research project built around Suzanne’s attempt to understand the dialogues as a coherent body of work.
That means the site mixes conventional reference material with interpretation.
There are pages on Plato’s biography and works, a history of interpretation, proposed new hypotheses, maps of the dialogues, detailed and synoptic chronologies, maps of the ancient Greek world, and an index of people and places appearing throughout the material.
The homepage was first published on May 16, 1996 and was still being updated in August 2026.
Thirty years is a respectable amount of time to keep one philosophical rabbit hole open.
The tools are as useful as the argument
Suzanne’s index of persons and locations is especially old-Web in the best way. Entries connect names in the dialogues to biographical or geographical context, and locations link into hand-built maps of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.
The site also preserves an older approach to online scholarship. Suzanne explains that many English quotations are his own translations, cites editions and translators, separates works likely to be genuine from works probably misattributed to Plato, and discusses ancient arrangements such as the nine tetralogies associated with Thrasyllus.
A 1998 usage page even recommends an 800-by-600 display, 64K colors and a browser capable of HTML 3.2, such as Netscape Navigator 3.
The scholarship outlived the browser advice.
That is the point.
A modern redesign could make the site prettier, but the actual value is accumulated structure: cross-links, chronologies, indices, bibliography and a writer willing to explain where his interpretation differs from received opinion.
Independent scholarship on the Web is messy because the author gets to decide what deserves a page.
It is also powerful for exactly the same reason.
Plato wrote dialogues rather than a textbook. Suzanne responded by building a website rather than one.