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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: 58. Chapters: Ancient Syracusians, Battles involving Syracuse, Syracusian colonies, Plato, Archimedes, Agathocles of Syracuse, Bacchylides, Cephalus, Hiero I of Syracuse, Theocritus, Dionysius I of Syracuse, Philistus, Sophron, Hiero II of Syracuse, Sicilian Expedition, Dion of Syracuse, Siege of Syracuse, Battle of Messana, Calippus of Syracuse, Akrillai, Symeon of Trier, Diocles of Syracuse, Dionysius II of Syracuse, Hieronymus of Syracuse, Leptines of Syracuse, Hicetas, Casmene, Hermocrates, Archestratus, Helorus, Epicydes, Corax of Syracuse, Kamarina, Sicily, Cynaethus, List of tyrants of Syracuse, Theodoridas of Syracuse, Phrygillus, Acestorides, Ortygia, Monimus, Sositheus, Lanassa, Rhinthon, Archias of Corinth, Philistis, Timycha, Menecrates of Syracuse, Nereis of Epirus, Achaeus of Syracuse, Thrasybulus of Syracuse, Polemarchus, Ecphantus the Pythagorean, Agatharchus of Syracuse, Battle of the Elleporus, Aeschrion of Syracuse, Apollocrates, Antiochus of Syracuse, Aenesidemus, tyrant of Leontini, Siege of Rhegium, Arethuse, Simmias of Syracuse, Petalism. 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 so...
