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Plato Roman copy of a portrait bust c. 370 BC Born 428/427 or 424/423 BC Athens Died 348 BC (aged c. 75–80) Athens Notable work Euthyphro Apology Crito Phaedo Meno Protagoras Gorgias Symposium Phaedrus Parmenides Theaetetus Republic Timaeus Laws Era Ancient Greek philosophy School Platonic Academy Notable students Aristotle Main interests Epistemology, Metaphysics Political philosophy ...
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]
348 BCE – Plato either died while being serenaded by a Thracian flute-playing girl, at a wedding feast, or in his sleep. 338 BCE – According to legend, Isocrates starved himself to death. 323 BCE – Accounts differ regarding the death of Diogenes of Sinope. He is alleged to have died from eating raw octopus, from being bitten by a dog, and ...
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, ...
The newly deciphered text also gives further clarity to the circumstances surrounding how Plato was sold as a slave in either 399 BC after the death of Socrates or in 404 BC on the island of ...
In the Trial of Socrates, the judgement of the court was death for Socrates; most of the jurors voted for the death penalty (Apology 38c), yet Plato provides no jury-vote numbers in the text of the Apology of Socrates; but Diogenes Laërtius reports that 280 jurors voted for the death penalty and 220 jurors voted for a pecuniary fine for ...
Head of Plato, Roman copy.The original was exhibited at the Academy after the death of the philosopher (348/347 BC).. Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines of Plato. [1]
A Renaissance manuscript Latin translation of The Republic. The Myth of Er (/ ɜːr /; Ancient Greek: Ἤρ, romanized: ér, gen.: Ἠρός) is a legend that concludes Plato's Republic (10.614–10.621).