Plato

428 BCE – 348 BCE

Philosophy & Thought

Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.

Contemporaries

Hippocrates

58 yr overlap

Aristotle

36 yr overlap

Socrates

29 yr overlap

Alexander the Great

8 yr overlap