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Plato, Roman copy of a portrait by Silanion, Capitoline Museums (photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 2.5)
Plato, Roman copy of a portrait by Silanion, Capitoline Museums (photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 2.5) · Wikimedia Commons

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Plato

c. 427–347 BC · Philosopher

Socrates’ pupil and Aristotle’s teacher, who wrote philosophy as conversation: the trial and death of Socrates, the Symposium on love, the Republic’s city in words, the cave, Atlantis and the Laws.

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Every dialogue and the Letters, in Greek beside English, speech by speech.

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