Plato was educated with care, his body was formed and invigorated with gymnastic exercise and his mind was cultivated and enlightened by the study of poetry and geometry.
It was about 20th year of Plato’s age that his acquaintance with Socrates began. Socrates at that time was considered by many to be wisest and most virtuous man in all Greece.
During eight years he continued to be one of the pupils of Socrates and after his death Plato retired from Athens, and began to travel over Greece.
Most of Plato’s ideas concerning the roles of the state are presented in what many consider to be his greatest work, the Republic, a work which is often credited with laying the foundation and paving the way for all subsequent political thought and discourse.
Plato founded one of the earliest known organized schools in Western Civilization in a plot of land in the Grove of Hecademus or Academus.
Plato (429 BC – 348 BC)
