# Plato

- Id: `plato`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/plato/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `fac4d84a814b48ce2c7a512c539e6df4ad42d683a95335e744f8e7a114b3fa94`

## Summary

A student of Socrates and founder of the Academy, Plato turned philosophy’s largest questions into living dialogues.

## Overview

Plato died around 348 or 347 BCE; later Platonism and modern scholarship are unavailable by default.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "c. 428–348 BCE",
    "era": "Classical Antiquity",
    "distance": "about 2,373 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "platonism",
    "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
    "detail": "Platonism",
    "labels": [
        "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "Platonism"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": -347,
    "display": "347 BCE",
    "reason": "Plato died around 348 or 347 BCE; later Platonism and modern scholarship are unavailable by default."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 26,
    "passages": 1565,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Athens",
        "period": "c. 428-348 BCE",
        "description": "Birthplace, Socratic circle and the Academy.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Megara",
        "period": "after 399 BCE",
        "description": "Traditional refuge with Euclides after Socrates' death.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Syracuse",
        "period": "c. 387, 367 and 361 BCE",
        "description": "Three Sicilian journeys are traditional; details depend partly on disputed letters.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Southern Italy",
        "period": "traditional first journey",
        "description": "Ancient biography places Plato among Pythagorean circles before Sicily.",
        "confidence": "C",
        "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/plato/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Cyrene",
        "period": "traditional travels",
        "description": "A later travel tradition associates Plato with the mathematician Theodorus at Cyrene.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/plato/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Egypt",
        "period": "traditional travels",
        "description": "The Egyptian journey is a persistent but uncertain ancient biographical tradition.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://iep.utm.edu/plato/"
    }
]
```