From Plato's Cave to the Cave of Virtual Reality.
Plato, in the Socratic dialogue "The Republic", in order to
describe the "ideal state" uses an allegory of a cave. This
description 2000 years later has spawned many ideas and
applications. We will briefly examine some of them.
Then we will focus on the way the Foundation of the Hellenic
World inspired by those ideas, and using state of the art
technology, has utilized them by creating virtual environments,
like a "reverse" platonic cave, to give to the visitor of "Hellenic
Cosmos" a better understanding of the past.
URLs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Republic_(Plato)
Text
http://voices.yahoo.com/platos-allegory-cave-analysissummary-25170.html
http://www.inpsy.gr/el/ekpaideusi/arthra/arthra-anglika/148bousiou-chaido-a-temptation-of-a-psychoanalytic-interpretationon-the-cave-s-myth
http://www.ramnousia.com/2010/05/matrix.html#.UdvljVNTu_s
Video
http://www.fakenation.info/platoscave.html
Flatland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8oiwnNlyE4