The philosopher Crantor, a student of Plato's student Xenocrates, is often cited as an example of a writer who thought the story to be historical fact.

Plato's student Aristotle disagreed with his tutor.

Plato's student Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) famously set forth an extended treatise on rhetoric that still repays careful study today.

Aristotle, Plato's student, defined human beings as rational animals, emphasizing reason as a characteristic of human nature.

Aristotle, Plato's student, wrote dozens of works on many scientific disciplines, but his greatest contribution to literature was likely his Poetics, which lays out his understanding of drama, and thereby establishes the first criteria for literary criticism.

Aristotle, Plato's student, wrote dozens of works on many scientific disciplines, but his greatest contribution to literature was likely his Poetics, which lays out his understanding of drama, and thereby establishes the first criteria for literary criticism.

Plato's student Aristotle in turn criticized and built upon the doctrines he ascribed to Socrates and Plato, forming the foundation of Aristotelianism.

Chief among these were Socrates, whose ideas exist primarily in a series of dialogues by his student Plato, who mixed them with his own ; Plato ; and Plato's student, Aristotle.

It was Plato's student, Aristotle, who, in basing his thought on the natural world, returned empiricism to its primary place, while leaving room in the world for man.

Instead of bands, Plato's student Eudoxus developed a planetary model using concentric spheres for all the planets, with three spheres each for his models of the Moon and the Sun and four each for the models of the other five planets, thus making 26 spheres in all. Callippus modified this system, using five spheres for his models of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars and retaining four spheres for the models of Jupiter and Saturn, thus making 33 spheres in all.

Plato's most outstanding student was Aristotle, perhaps the first truly systematic philosopher.

The remainder of the dialogue is taken up with an actual performance of such an exercise, where a young Aristoteles ( later a member of the Thirty Tyrants, not to be confused with Plato's eventual student Aristotle ) takes the place of Socrates as Parmenides ' interlocutor.

" Aristotle was a student at Plato's Academy, and it is known that like his teacher he wrote dialogues, or conversations.

" This dialogue offered Aristotle, first a student and then a teacher at Plato's Academy, a more positive starting point for the development of rhetoric as an art worthy of systematic, scientific study.

His On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato is not a commentary on Plato's writings but rather a general handbook for a student of mathematics.

Aristotle ( Plato's student at the Akademia ) included aether in the system of the classical elements of Ionian philosophy as the " fifth element " ( the quintessence ), on the principle that the four terrestrial elements were subject to change and moved naturally in straight lines while no change had been observed in the celestial regions and the heavenly bodies moved in circles.

Together with Plato and Socrates ( Plato's teacher ), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.

In contrast, Aristotle reverses Plato's order of derivation.

Aristotle transformed Plato's forms into " formal causes ", the blueprints or essences of individual things.

Aristotle was creating his theory of substance in response and counter to Plato's theory of framework or structures called the theory of forms.

The issue being that Aristotle, through resolving Parmenides ' Third Man argument against Plato's forms and ontology created a second philosophical school of thought.

Mimēsis is a concept, now popular again in academic discussion, that was particularly prevalent in Plato's works, and within Aristotle, it is discussed mainly in the Poetics.

Genette further discussed how Aristotle revised Plato's system by first eliminating the pure narrative as a viable mode.

Aristotle later revised Plato's system by eliminating the pure narrative as a viable mode and distinguishing by two additional criteria: the object to be imitated, as objects could be either superior or inferior, and the medium of presentation such as words, gestures or verse.

Plato's dialectical protégé Aristotle ( 384-322 B. C.

According to some sources, around 367 he assumed headship of the Academy during Plato's period in Syracuse, and taught Aristotle.

One of Plato's students, Aristotle, is known to have also been an experimentalist, and may have taken the concept up from his teacher's teacher.

In the Physics Aristotle rejected Plato's assumption that the universe was created by an intelligent designer using eternal forms as his model.

* The Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, goes to Athens as a pupil at Plato's Academy.

After Plato's death he attached himself to Aristotle.

' ) This contrast and utter disproportion greatly occupied these philosophers in the philosophemes of the Eleatics, in Plato's doctrine of the Ideas, in the dialectic of the Megarics, and later the scholastics in the dispute between nominalism and realism, whose seed, so late in developing, was already contained in the opposite mental tendencies of Plato and Aristotle.

Few of Plato's writings were studied in the Latin West at that time, and he essentially reintroduced much of Plato to the Western world, shaking the domination which Aristotle had come to exercise over Western European thought in the high and later middle ages.

In De Differentiis Plethon compares Aristotle's and Plato's conceptions of God, arguing that Plato credits God with more exalted powers as " creator of every kind of intelligible and separate substance, and hence of our entire universe ", while Aristotle has Him as only the motive force of the universe ; Plato's God is also the end and final cause of existence, while Aristotle's God is only the end of movement and change.

Later, in response to Gennadius ' Defence of Aristotle, Plethon argued in his Reply that Plato's God was more consistent with Christian doctrine than Aristotle's, and this, according to Darien DeBolt, was probably in part an attempt to escape suspicion of heterodoxy.

The love story of Rhadine made her supposed tomb on the island of Samos a pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers in the time of Pausanias and Erato was linked again with love in Plato's Phaedrus ; nevertheless, even in the third century BCE, when Apollonius wrote, the Muses were not yet as inextricably linked to specific types of poetry as they became.

Aristotle moved to Athens from his native Stageira in 367 BCE and began to study philosophy, possibly with Isocrates, eventually enrolling at Plato's Academy.

According to Plato's Phaedo, he was the instructor of Simmias and Cebes at Thebes, around the time the Phaedo takes place, in 399 BCE.

Euripides ' Antiope, presented about 408 BCE, was widely quoted, in Plato's Gorgias and many other authors, resulting in a large array of fragments.

459-400 BCE ) was a sophist of Ancient Greece best known as a character in Plato's Republic.

In Plato's Apology, an account of the Trial of Socrates in 399 BCE, Socrates calls Chaerephon his longtime friend and the friend of many present.

This campaign concluded in 430 BCE ( 3 years before Plato's birth and 31 years before Socrates ' death ), but Plato is probably accurate in depicting the association of Chaerephon and Socrates as already well established.

The style of Plato's coins suggests that he was a relative — most likely a brother since Plato is a middle-aged man on his coins — of Eucratides the Great, whose rise to power is dated to around 170 – 165 BCE.

Some of Plato's coins have inscriptions which may be possibly be interpreted as dates using the Indo-Greek era which started around 186 BCE.