What was Plato's real name?

Question

Thanks bnyxis, but I can't read Greek and I think that's just the Greek word for Plato am looking for his real name and how it is pronounced, so I need the phonetics.

Thanks a lot Diana P
"According to Diogenes Laertius, the philosopher was named Aristocles after his grandfather"
Sorry trina can't give you the points as i think you may have been talking about his student

Diana P I'll give you the points just as soon as I have worked out how to do it. Sorry it's my first time!

Answer 1

Interesting. I never knew this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato#Name

Answer 2

Western Philosophy
Ancient philosophy

Plato
Name
Plato (Πλάτων)

Birth
c. 428–427 BC, Athens

Death
c. 348–347 BC, Athens

School/tradition
Platonism

Main interests
Rhetoric, Art, Literature, Epistemology, Justice, Virtue, Politics, Education, Family, Militarism

Notable ideas
Platonic realism

Influences
Socrates, Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Aesop, Protagoras, Parmenides, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Orphism

Influenced
Aristotle, Neoplatonism, Cicero, Plutarch, Stoicism, Anselm, Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Mill, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Gadamer and countless other western philosophers and theologians

Answer 3

Plato

Answer 4

Aristotle. :)

Edit:
Actually, I wasn't but, that's okay. :) Bottom line is I was wrong. There is another question floating around here to which I responded, referring to Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. :) So, I had Aristotle on the brain. :)

Answer 5

Only his mother knows for sure.