{"slug": "plato", "label": "Plato", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q859", "qid": "Q859", "description": "4th-century BCE Greek philosopher", "entries": 21, "years": 18, "span": [-426, 1469], "span_label": ["427 BCE", "1469 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 6}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "academy", "label": "Academy", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "dionysius-i-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius I of Syracuse", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "socrates", "label": "Socrates", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aristotle", "label": "Aristotle", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dionysius-ii-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius II of Syracuse", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "megara", "label": "Megara", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sasanian-empire", "label": "Sasanian Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "latin", "label": "Latin", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -426, "year_label": "427 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Plato, Greek philosopher (d. c. 347 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210114491#Births", "title": "427 BC", "revid": 1210114491, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -415, "year_label": "416 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "According to Plato's Symposium, the tragedian Agathon wins first prize at the Lenaia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292484682#Drama", "title": "416 BC", "revid": 1292484682, "section": "Events › By topic › Drama"}}, {"year": -395, "year_label": "396 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Plato publishes his Apologia, which is a defence of his mentor Socrates. (Approximate date.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223289#Literature", "title": "396 BC", "revid": 1306223289, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -387, "year_label": "388 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Plato, having left Athens on Socrates' death to visit Megara and possibly Egypt, travels to Syracuse at the invitation of Dionysius I's brother-in-law Dion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210249612#Art", "title": "388 BC", "revid": 1210249612, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -386, "year_label": "387 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Plato is forced by Dionysius to leave Syracuse after having exercised the right of free speech too broadly. Plato returns to Athens, outside which he founds a school.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367650579#Sicily_and_Adriatic", "title": "387 BC", "revid": 1367650579, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily and Adriatic"}}, {"year": -386, "year_label": "387 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Plato founds the Platonic Academy in Athens, where he teaches Aristotle until 347 BC.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367650579#Greece", "title": "387 BC", "revid": 1367650579, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -384, "year_label": "385 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Plato forms his Academy, teaching mathematics, astronomy and other sciences as well as philosophy. It is dedicated to the Attic hero Academus. Philanthropists bear all costs; students pay no fees.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1248865885#Education", "title": "385 BC", "revid": 1248865885, "section": "Events › By topic › Education"}}, {"year": -367, "year_label": "368 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Plato's Republic is completed. It lays down the rules for an ideal, righteous society and suggests that kings ought to be philosophers (or at least taught by philosophers).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242240969#Philosophy", "title": "368 BC", "revid": 1242240969, "section": "Events › By topic › Philosophy"}}, {"year": -366, "year_label": "367 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "The Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, goes to Athens as a pupil at Plato's Academy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291620451#Philosophy", "title": "367 BC", "revid": 1291620451, "section": "Events › By topic › Philosophy"}}, {"year": -366, "year_label": "367 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Dionysius I of Syracuse dies and is succeeded as tyrant of the city by his son Dionysius II. As the younger Dionysius is weak and inexperienced, Dion, brother-in-law of the elder Dionysius, assumes control and persuades Plato, whose friendship he has acquired, to train the new tyrant in the practical application of his philosophical principles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291620451#Sicily", "title": "367 BC", "revid": 1291620451, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -360, "year_label": "361 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Plato returns once more to Syracuse to teach the young Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II. He fails to reconcile the tyrant to Dion, who Dionysius II banished in 366 BC. Because of this, Plato is forced to flee Syracuse to save his life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1226326183#Sicily", "title": "361 BC", "revid": 1226326183, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -359, "year_label": "360 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Plato writes the dialogues Timaeus and Critias, first mentioning Atlantis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1141894957#Literature", "title": "360 BC", "revid": 1141894957, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -349, "year_label": "350 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Plato proposes a geocentric model of the universe with the stars rotating on a fixed celestial sphere.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367585688#Science", "title": "350 BC", "revid": 1367585688, "section": "Events › By topic › Science"}}, {"year": -347, "year_label": "348 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Plato, Greek philosopher and author", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209992031#Deaths", "title": "348 BC", "revid": 1209992031, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -346, "year_label": "347 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens (b. c. 427 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556206#Deaths", "title": "347 BC", "revid": 1326556206, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -346, "year_label": "347 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Plato dies and his nephew Speusippus is named as head of the Academy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556206#Philosophy", "title": "347 BC", "revid": 1326556206, "section": "Events › By topic › Philosophy"}}, {"year": -338, "year_label": "339 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Speusippus, head of Plato's Academy (b. 407 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1032056745#Deaths", "title": "339 BC", "revid": 1032056745, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -313, "year_label": "314 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Xenocrates, Greek philosopher, pupil of Plato and head of the Greek Academy (b. 396 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242240408#Deaths", "title": "314 BC", "revid": 1242240408, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 321, "year_label": "321 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Calcidius translates Plato into Latin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598330#Art_and_Science", "title": "321", "revid": 1360598330, "section": "Events › By topic › Art and Science"}}, {"year": 529, "year_label": "529 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Academy, originally founded at Athens by Plato around 387 BC, closes down by order of Justinian I, on charges of un-Christian activity. Many of the school's professors emigrate to Persia and Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351343002#Education", "title": "529", "revid": 1351343002, "section": "Events › By topic › Education"}}, {"year": 1469, "year_label": "1469 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Marsilio Ficino completes his translation of the collected works of Plato, writes Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love, and starts to work on Platonic Theology.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365666063#Date_unknown", "title": "1469", "revid": 1365666063, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}