. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. PLATO, the most illustrious of the dis-ciples of Socrates, expounded and de-veloped the doctrines of his master, andsuch was his influence in antiquity, andsuch the transcendental character of histeaching, that he came to be regarded asdivine. During the long struggle be-tween rising Christianity and expiringPaganism his authority was enlisted onboth sides, and had effect on the Middle Ages it fell intoabeyance, but it revived with the re-newal of the study of Greek. In moderntimes it has animated v
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. PLATO, the most illustrious of the dis-ciples of Socrates, expounded and de-veloped the doctrines of his master, andsuch was his influence in antiquity, andsuch the transcendental character of histeaching, that he came to be regarded asdivine. During the long struggle be-tween rising Christianity and expiringPaganism his authority was enlisted onboth sides, and had effect on the Middle Ages it fell intoabeyance, but it revived with the re-newal of the study of Greek. In moderntimes it has animated various schools of philosophy, andstimulated independent thinkers. Plato was born of noble Athenian parents, in the island of^gina, probably in May, 427 , though some authoritiesassign an earlier year. His father, Ariston, traced his ancestryto Codrus, the last King of Athens, and his mother, Peric-tyone, was of the family of Solon. His name was originallyAristocles, but from the width of his shoulders or of his fore-head he was surnamed Plato (broad). In youth he wrotepoems
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