the ledger of connections
The Connections of Plato
Athenian philosopher, founder of the Academy and author of the Republic Every person recorded alongside Plato in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Plato in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Ariston of Athens, Perictione
- Siblings
- Potone, Adeimantus of Collytus, Glaucon, Antiphon
- Teachers
- Socrates, Theodoros of Cyrene, Hermogenes, Dionysius
- Students
- Aristotle, Axiothea of Phlius, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Xenocrates, Lastheneia of Mantinea, Heraclides Ponticus, Speusippus, Chaeron of Pellene, Philippus of Opus, Leon of Byzantium
- Influenced by
- Socrates, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Protagoras, Pythagoras, Orphism
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 427 BCE to 347 BCE.
Ancient era
Demosthenes
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Ancient era
Herodotus
484 BCE – 425 BCE
Greek historian and geographer (c.484–c.425 BC)
Ancient era
Thucydides
c. 460 BCE – 395 BCE
5th-century BC Athenian historian and general
Ancient era
Socrates
470 BCE – 399 BCE
Athenian philosopher whose questioning method founded Western ethics
Ancient era
Aristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Greek philosopher and polymath, tutor of Alexander, father of formal logic
Ancient era
Diogenes of Sinope
412 BCE – 323 BCE
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
Ancient era
Democritus
c. 460 BCE – c. 360 BCE
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
Ancient era
Hippocrates
460 BCE – 370 BCE
Greek physician called the father of medicine
Ancient era
Philip II of Macedon
c. 385 BCE – 336 BCE
King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
Ancient era
Alexander the Great
356 BCE – 323 BCE
Macedonian king who built an empire from Greece to India by age 30
Ancient era
Ptolemy I Soter
c. 365 BCE – c. 285 BCE
Macedonian general, ruler of Egypt
Ancient era
Mencius
372 BCE – 289 BCE
Chinese Confucian philosopher (372–289 BC)