Does anyone know anything about plato?

Question

I need to know his charectoristics, and anything else..

I need to know what influence he had on greek society, what his charectorisics where and how are his contributions evadent today

Answer 1

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "wide, broad-shouldered") (c. 427–c. 347 BC), whose real name is believed to have been Aristocles, was an immensely influential ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens where Aristotle studied.

Plato lectured extensively at the Academy, and wrote on many philosophical issues, dealing especially in politics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The most important writings of Plato are his dialogues, although some letters have come down to us under his name. It is believed that all of Plato's authentic dialogues survive. However, some dialogues ascribed to Plato by the Greeks are now considered by the consensus of scholars to be either suspect (e.g., First Alcibiades, Clitophon) or probably spurious (such as Demodocus, or the Second Alcibiades). The letters are all considered to probably be spurious, with the possible exception of the Seventh Letter.

Socrates is often a character in Plato's dialogues. How much of the content and argument of any given dialogue is Socrates' point of view, and how much of it is Plato's, is heavily disputed, since Socrates himself did not write anything; this is often referred to as the "Socratic problem". However, Plato was doubtless strongly influenced by Socrates' teachings, so many of the ideas presented, at least in his early works, were probably borrowings or adaptations

click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato

Answer 2

he was a student of socrates, and most of what we know today about socrates were revealed to the world by plato. many believe some of what plato wrote about socrates were untrue arguing that since plato had the monopoly of the information about socrates, he was free to write whatever he wanted about his master, whether true or lies.

Answer 3

Plato, they say, could stick it away,
'Alf a crate of whiskey every day!

Answer 4

If you press it down firmly and spread it carefully onto a comic strip,.. then lift it slowly; the image will transfer onto it. ;)