'real' Socrates, like many of the other Ancient philosophers, remains at best enigmatic and at worst unknown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates   428/427 BC– 348/347 BC Plato ( Greek : Πλάτων , Plátōn , "broad") [1] (428/427 BC [a] – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher , mathematician , writer of philosophical dialogues,