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Plato's death
He died at age 80-81. -
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Plato's life
Plato returned and estblished his own school of philosophy he was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens. -
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Plato's life
Another interesting fact about Plato is that he is popular for his dialogues and he started writing them around his 40s. The main issue with the work of Plato is that the order of his work is still under debate. There have been abandonment of his dialogues too and the dialogues that he wrote in Socrates form had some genuine objections. -
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Platos Life
Plato left Athens to study in Italy and Egypt . -
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The first 23 years of Plato's life Athens and Sparta were in war,an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. In the first phase, the Archidamian War, Sparta launched repeated invasions of Attica, while Athens took advantage of its naval supremacy to raid the coast of the Peloponnese attempting to suppress signs of unrest in its empire. -
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Plato's life
Socrates was his friend and his teacher. Many say his work is inspired from the works of Socrates and that is mainly due to the reason that Plato was his student so it seems natural that he will be inspired by his teacher. He firmly believed in the thought process of Socrates and that is the reason he took it forward in his own way. Then it was Aristotle who was the student of Plato and both of them worked together for a long time. -
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Plato's birth
Plato was born in Athens Greece ,during the final years of the Golden Age of Pericles' Athens. He was of noble Athenian lineage on both sides. His father Ariston died when he was a child. -
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Plato's family
Plato's father was Ariston, Ariston traced his descent from the king of Athens, Codrus, and the king of Messenia. Plato's mother was Perictione, whos family boasted of a relationship with the famous Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet Solon. Perictione was sister of Charmides and cousin of Critias.
