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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology, Plato, Ptolemy, Gregory of Nazianzus, Antipater of Sidon, Simonides of Ceos, Callimachus, Alexander Aetolus, Perses, Theocritus, Philitas of Cos, Philodemus, Straton of Sardis, Zenodotus, Meleager of Gadara, Adaeus, Palladas, Nicander, Crinagoras of Mytilene, Antipater of Thessalonica, Mesomedes, Euphorion of Chalcis, Poseidippus of Pella, Paul the Silentiary, Alcaeus of Messene, Theodoridas of Syracuse, Leonidas of Tarentum, Metrodorus, Anyte of Tegea, Rhianus, Alpheus Mytilenaeus, Asclepiades of Samos, Nicarchus, Samus, Hedylus, Philippus of Thessalonica, Euenus, Parmenion, Macedonius of Thessalonica, Archias, Nossis, Marcus Argentarius, Thallus, Lucillius, Admetus, Phaedimus of Bisanthe, Rufinus, Nicaenetus of Samos, Lollius Bassus, Bianor, Epigonus of Thessalonica. Excerpt: Plato (English pronunciation: Greek: , Plat n, "broad"; 424/423 BC - 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. In the famous words of A.N. Whitehead: The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them. Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have been ascribed to him. Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the namin...
