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Roman copy of a portrait bust c. 370 BC (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plato_Silanion_Musei_Capitolini_MC1377.jpg

Basic data

  1. Aristokles Alternative Names
  2. between January 1, 428 BCE and December 31, 427 BCE
  3. †
    between January 1, 348 BCE and December 31, 347 BCE
  4. Philosoph
  5. Athen

Iconography

Roman copy of a portrait bust c. 370 BC (Source: Wikimedia)
Plato was one of the devoted young followers of Socrates, whose bust is pictured above. (Source: Wikimedia)
The mathematical and mystical teachings of the followers of Pythagoras, pictured above, exerted a strong influence on Plato. (Source: Wikimedia)
A Venn diagram illustrating the classical theory of knowledge (Source: Wikimedia)
"What is justice?" forms one of the core quandaries of the Republic. (Source: Wikimedia)
Oxyrhynchus Papyri, with fragment of Plato's Republic (Source: Wikimedia)
Painting of a scene from Plato's Symposium (Anselm Feuerbach, 1873) (Source: Wikimedia)
Volume 3, pp. 32–33, of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing a passage of Timaeus with the Latin translation and notes of Jean de Serres (Source: Wikimedia)
Plato's Academy mosaic in the villa of T. Siminius Stephanus in Pompeii, around 100 BC to 100 CE (Source: Wikimedia)
The School of Athens fresco by Raphael features Plato (left) also as a central figure, holding his Timaeus while he gestures to the heavens. Aristotle (right) gestures to the earth while holding a copy of his Nicomachean Ethics in his hand. (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis von Plato, 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis von Plato, Heyer, Georg Friedrich - 1793 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis von Plato, 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Plato, 1651/1800 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Plato, Johann Christian Püschel - 1711/1770 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Plato, 1701/1800 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Platon, Krüger - 1768 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Plato, 1574 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Plato, um 1787 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Plato, 1601/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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