In fact, the men in Symposium were all historical figures. Plato died at the age of 81.Įven though an event exactly like the symposium portrayed in Symposium probably didn’t occur, ritual banquets like this one-marked by liberal drinking and deep discussion-were markers of culture and status in classical Athens and were attended by aristocratic men like the characters in the dialogue. Some of his most famous dialogues (he wrote more than 20) include Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, and The Republic. Plato also invented the dialogue, a literary form which depicts a conversation between one or more characters. After this, Plato spent time traveling around the Mediterranean before settling down in Athens to write and establish his Academy, which would become the predecessor of the modern university Aristotle became his most famous student there. Plato continued to study under Socrates until the age of 28, when, in 399 B.C., the older philosopher was tried and executed for impiety. In his youth Plato wanted to become a playwright, but in his late teens or early twenties he heard Socrates teaching in the marketplace and decided to devote his life to philosophy. The young Aristocles was said to have been given his nickname, Plato, by his wrestling coach ( platon means “broad” in Greek). His father was named Ariston and his mother Perictione, and he had two brothers and a sister. He was born into an aristocratic Greek family. Plato is one of the most important philosophers who ever lived his thought influenced the entire subsequent Western philosophical tradition.
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