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52 relations: Adeimantus of Collytus, Adjective, Agora, Allegory of the Cave, Animal husbandry, Antiphon brother of Plato, Apollodorus of Phaleron, Ariston of Athens, Aristotle, Athena, Athens, Battle of Megara, Benjamin Jowett, Classical Athens, Dictionary, Diogenes Laërtius, Ecclesia (ancient Athens), Epithet, Eros, Foil (literature), Goddess, Greek language, Justice, List of speakers in Plato's dialogues, Lysias, Megara, Memorabilia (Xenophon), Oxford, Parmenides, Parmenides (dialogue), Paul Shorey, Peloponnesian War, Perictione, Philosopher, Plato, Poetics (Aristotle), Polemarchus, Potone, Pythagoras, Republic (Plato), Ring of Gyges, Social contract, Socrates, Sophist, Sparta, Stephanus pagination, Symposium, Symposium (Plato), Thrasymachus, Xenophon, ..., Zeno of Elea, Zeus. Expand index (2 more) »
Adeimantus of Collytus
Adeimantus of Collytus (Ἀδείμαντος; c. 432 BC – 382 BC),Debra Nails, The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics.
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Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.
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Agora
The agora (ἀγορά agorá) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states.
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Allegory of the Cave
The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".
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Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, eggs, or other products.
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Antiphon brother of Plato
Antiphon (Ἀντιφῶν) was a man of ancient Greece who was the youngest brother of the philosopher Plato.
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Apollodorus of Phaleron
Apollodorus of Phaleron (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος Φαληρεύς, Apollódōros Phalēreύs, c. 429 – 4th century BCE) was an Ancient Athenian student and prominent follower of Socrates frequently depicted in the Socratic literature.
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Ariston of Athens
Ariston of Collytus (Ἀρίστων; died c. 424 BC), was the father of the Greek philosopher Plato (originally named Aristocles).
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.
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Athena
Athena; Attic Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā, or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaia; Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaiē; Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athānā or Athene,; Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athēnē often given the epithet Pallas,; Παλλὰς is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare, who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Athens
Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.
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Battle of Megara
The Battle of Megara was fought in 424 BC between Athens and Megara, an ally of Sparta.
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Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin Jowett (modern variant; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides.
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Classical Athens
The city of Athens (Ἀθῆναι, Athênai a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯; Modern Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athínai) during the classical period of Ancient Greece (508–322 BC) was the major urban center of the notable polis (city-state) of the same name, located in Attica, Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League.
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Dictionary
A dictionary, sometimes known as a wordbook, is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.
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Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laërtius (Διογένης Λαέρτιος, Diogenēs Laertios) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers.
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Ecclesia (ancient Athens)
The ecclesia or ekklesia (ἐκκλησία) was the principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens.
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Epithet
An epithet (from ἐπίθετον epitheton, neuter of ἐπίθετος epithetos, "attributed, added") is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage.
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Eros
In Greek mythology, Eros (Ἔρως, "Desire") was the Greek god of sexual attraction.
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Foil (literature)
In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
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Goddess
A goddess is a female deity.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Justice
Justice is the legal or philosophical theory by which fairness is administered.
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List of speakers in Plato's dialogues
The following is a list of the speakers found in the dialogues traditionally ascribed to Plato, including extensively quoted, indirect and conjured speakers.
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Lysias
Lysias (Λυσίας; c. 445 BC – c. 380 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece.
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Megara
Megara (Μέγαρα) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece.
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Memorabilia (Xenophon)
Memorabilia (original title in Greek: Ἀπομνημονεύματα, Apomnemoneumata) is a collection of Socratic dialogues by Xenophon, a student of Socrates.
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Oxford
Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.
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Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea (Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (Greater Greece, included Southern Italy).
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Parmenides (dialogue)
Parmenides (Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato.
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Paul Shorey
Paul Shorey Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. (August 3, 1857 – April 24, 1934) was an American classical scholar.
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Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
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Perictione
Perictione (Περικτιόνη, Periktione; fl. 5th century BC) was the mother of the Greek philosopher Plato.
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Philosopher
A philosopher is someone who practices philosophy, which involves rational inquiry into areas that are outside either theology or science.
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Plato
Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Poetics (Aristotle)
Aristotle's Poetics (Περὶ ποιητικῆς; De Poetica; c. 335 BCDukore (1974, 31).) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory in the West.
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Polemarchus
Polemarchus or Polemarch (Πολέμαρχος; 5th century – 404 BCE) was an ancient Athenian philosopher from the Piraeus.
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Potone
Potone (Πωτώνη Pōtōnē; born before 427 BC) daughter of Ariston and Perictione, was Plato's older sister.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of the Pythagoreanism movement.
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Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Πολιτεία, Politeia; Latin: Res Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just, city-state, and the just man.
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Ring of Gyges
The Ring of Gyges (Γύγου Δακτύλιος) is a mythical magical artifact mentioned by the philosopher Plato in Book 2 of his Republic (2:359a–2:360d).
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Social contract
In both moral and political philosophy, the social contract is a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment.
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Socrates
Socrates (Sōkrátēs,; – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
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Sophist
A sophist (σοφιστής, sophistes) was a specific kind of teacher in ancient Greece, in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
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Sparta
Sparta (Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, Spártā; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, Spártē) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece.
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Stephanus pagination
Stephanus pagination is a system of reference and organization used in modern editions and translations of Plato (and less famously, Plutarch) based on the three volume 1578 edition of Plato's complete works translated by Joannes Serranus (Jean de Serres) and published by Henricus Stephanus (Henri Estienne) in Geneva.
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Symposium
In ancient Greece, the symposium (συμπόσιον symposion or symposio, from συμπίνειν sympinein, "to drink together") was a part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation.
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Symposium (Plato)
The Symposium (Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–370 BC.
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Thrasymachus
Thrasymachus (Θρασύμαχος Thrasýmachos; c. 459 – c. 400 BC) was a sophist of ancient Greece best known as a character in Plato's Republic.
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Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (Ξενοφῶν,, Xenophōn; – 354 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, historian, soldier, mercenary, and student of Socrates.
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Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea (Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Magna Graecia and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides.
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Zeus
Zeus (Ζεύς, Zeús) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.
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