Plato - Ancient Greek Philosopher - 428-348 BC - Student of Socrates, Teacher of Aristotle - Founder of the Academy - Alabaster Statue

Item Specifics

Quote : “Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something.”

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece
Height: 18 cm(7")
Width: 5 cm(2")
Weight: 220g
Material: Alabaster

The Athenian philosopher Plato (c.428-347 B.C.) is one of the most important figures of the Ancient Greek world and the entire history of Western thought. In his written dialogues he conveyed and expanded on the ideas and techniques of his teacher Socrates. The Academy he founded was by some accounts the world’s first university and in it he trained his greatest student, the equally influential philosopher Aristotle. Plato’s recurring fascination was the distinction between ideal forms and everyday experience, and how it played out both for individuals and for societies. In the “Republic,” his most famous work, he envisioned a civilization governed not by lowly appetites but by the pure wisdom of a philosopher-king.