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Plato (/ ˈ p l eɪ t oʊ / PLAY-toe; [1] Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, born c. 428-423 BC, died 348 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Therefore, Nails concludes that "perhaps Ariston was a cleruch, perhaps he went to Aegina in 431, and perhaps Plato was born on Aegina, but none of this enables a precise dating of Ariston's death (or Plato's birth)". [12] Aegina is regarded as Plato's place of birth by Suda as well. [6]
776 Traditional date for the first historic Olympic games. ... 428 Plato born. ... one of Alexander's last cities before his death, ...
The newly deciphered text also dishes out the details of the moments leading up to Plato’s death around 347 B.C. The scroll says he spent his last evening listening to a musician, ...
born c. 458, died after 538 Neoplatonic: Damis: 1st/2nd century A.D. Neopythagorean: Damo: 5th century BC Pythagorean: reportedly the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano Dardanus of Athens: 160-85 BC Stoic: one of the several leaders of Stoa after the death of Panaetius Demetrius Lacon: fl. late 2nd century BC Epicurean: Demetrius of Amphipolis ...
Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At around eighteen years old, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty seven (c. 347 BC).
[35] According to Diogenes Laërtius, when Plato gave the tongue-in-cheek [36] definition of man as "featherless bipeds", Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Here is Plato's man" (Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Πλάτωνος ἄνθρωπος), and so the academy added "with broad flat nails" to the ...
Plato's representation of Socrates is not straightforward. [15] Plato was a pupil of Socrates and outlived him by five decades. [16] How trustworthy Plato is in representing the attributes of Socrates is a matter of debate; the view that he did not represent views other than Socrates's own is not shared by many contemporary scholars. [17]