Plato

Plato (c. 427 BCE or c. 424 BCE – c. 347 BCE), born Aristokles, was an ancient Greek philosopher, widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. He was a student of Sokrates and the teacher of Aristotle.
==Biography==
Aristokles was only a young boy in the early years of the Peloponnesian War. At one point, he made the acquaintance of the Spartan misthios Kassandra. After she gathered supporters to help Sokrates out of jail, he introduced himself to her but also shared that he did not like the name. Kassandra suggested he choose a new one, and he settled on 'Plato', a name by which his used to call him. He also told Kassandra of his passion for debate and how he hoped to be student of Sokrates one day.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Persuasion Check
Plato eventually went on to become an renowned author and philosopher. Around 388 BCE, he founded a school of philosophy that later came to known as the . The school attracted numerous mathematicians and geometers such as Archytas, a Pythagorean philosopher, and Eudoxos of Knidos, an astronomer. He was later eventually succeeded by his nephew Speusippos.Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Tours: School of Greece - Philosophy: "Importance of Philosophy"
In his work , Plato made his famous , in which prisoners were chained inside a cave and forced to look at a cave wall. They were not able to see the world outside, but only the reflections on the wall that the outside world made. The prisoners are able to free themselves when they see that the intangible, represented by the reflections, is real.Assassin's Creed: Origins – Layla Hassan's personal files: The Empirical Truth
==Legacy==
Three centuries after his death, the last Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra revealed her knowledge of Plato's works. When the visiting Roman general Julius Caesar told an anecdote about Catullus' insulting mention of him in , she commented that Plato was right to disdain poets as also outlined in The Republic, to which Caesar laughed at and agreed.Assassin's Creed: Origins – Aya: Blade of the Goddess
In 1497, during the Bonfire of the Vanities, one of Girolamo Savonarola's nine lieutenants stated that Savonarola condemned the teachings of both Plato and Aristotle, remarking that the only good thing they owed them was bringing forward many arguments which they could use against the heretics and that they and other philosophers were in Hell.Assassin's Creed II – Bonfire of the Vanities – Doomsday
In 1868, Evie Frye quoted Plato while talking to her brother Jacob although Jacob mistakenly believed that she was quoting their father, Ethan Frye.Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Double Trouble
==Gallery==
ACOD Persuasion Check 2.png|A young Plato observing the philosophers' debate
ACOD Persuasion Check 5.png|Plato meeting Kassandra
ACOD Persuasion Check 6.png|Plato speaking to Kassandra
ACOD Young Plato Closeup.png|Closeup of a young Plato
DTAG Plato Teaching in the Grove at Academia - Joshua Cristall.jpg|Plato teaching in the gardens of the Academy, painting by 
DTAG - Head of Plato.png|Head of Plato as seen in Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Syndicate 
*Assassin's Creed: Origins 
*Assassin's Creed: Odyssey 
*Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece 
*Assassin's Creed: Rebellion 
==References==
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