Helena Blavatsky wrote in The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes ( contrary to Plato, who describes them mainly as a military threat ) and are the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the " Aryan race ".

In the 4th century BC Plato knew oreichalkos as rare and nearly as valuable as gold and Pliny describes how aurichalcum had come from Cypriot ore deposits which had been exhausted by the 1st century AD.

The only contemporaneous mention of Hippocrates is in Plato's dialogue Protagoras, where Plato describes Hippocrates as " Hippocrates of Kos, the Asclepiad.

In the Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the Republic, Nickolas Pappas describes the " problem of misogyny " and states

At the basis of this orderly universe or nature are the forms, most fundamentally the Form of the Good, which Plato describes as " the brightest region of Being ".

Also in the Symposium, Plato describes how the experience of the Beautiful by Socrates enables him to resist the temptations of wealth and sex.

In The Republic ( 509d-510a ), Plato describes the Divided Line this way:

In other discussions, Plato describes particulars as " participating " in the associated universal.

Gérard Genette, a French literary theorist and author of The Architext, describes Plato as creating three imitational genres: dramatic dialogue, pure narrative and epic ( a mixture of dialogue and narrative ).

Plato, in his dialogue Timaeus, describes a creation myth involving a being called the demiurge ( δημιουργός " craftsman ").

Plato describes it as " a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus.

In his " Myth of Er ", a section of the Republic, Plato describes the cosmos as the Spindle of Necessity, attended by the Sirens and turned by the three Fates.

Plutarch describes him as slender and weak ; and Plato also alludes to his weakness, and a degree of effeminacy which thus resulted.

However, Arrian describes the occasion when Alexander and Hephaestion publicly identified themselves with Achilles and Patroclus, who were acknowledged, by Plato and Aeschylus among others, to have been lovers.

Plato describes a " great circuit " which souls make as they follow the gods in the path of enlightenment.

Plato describes this level of love as a " wondrous vision ," an " everlasting loveliness which neither comes nor ages, which neither flowers nor fades.

Plato describes " The Form of the Good " ( τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἰδέαν ) in his dialogue, the Republic, speaking through the character of Socrates.

In Book II of The Republic, Plato describes Socrates ' dialogue with his pupils.

In Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Greek Philosophy to Plato, Hegel describes Socrates as having catalepsy caused by magnetic somnambulism when in deep meditation.

Plato is a prime example with his Republic, which describes a societal model based on a tripartite class structure.

Plato in his Theaetetus, describes how Theodorus of Cyrene ( c. 400 BC ) proved the irrationality of √ 3, √ 5, etc.

Plato describes himself as not using absurd argumentation against himself in Parmenides.

In the Euthyphro, Plato describes Meletus as the youngest of the three prosecutors, having " a beak, and long straight hair, and a beard which is ill grown ," and being unknown to Socrates prior to the prosecution.

Plato describes Socrates as looking forward to speaking with Palamedes after death.

Benjamin Jowett's index to his translation of the Dialogues of Plato lists six dialogues which discuss or explore the saying of Delphi: ' know thyself.

McDaniel ( 1989: p. 7 ) in her work on the bhakti saints of Bengal holds that Plato defined four types of divine madness: the mantic divination of Apollo ; the telestic possession-trance of Dionysus which reaches its apogee in the maenads ; the poetic from the Muses ; and the erotic frenzied love of Eros and Aphrodite:

Plato acknowledged that extending civil and political rights to women would substantively alter the nature of the household and the state.

Aristotle, who had been taught by Plato, denied that women were slaves or subject to property, arguing that " nature has distinguished between the female and the slave ", but he considered wives to be " bought ".

Plato, according to Elaine Hoffman Baruch, around 394, argued that a system of child care would free women to participate in society.

* 385 BC – Plato publishes Symposium in which Phaedrus, Eryixmachus, Aristophanes and other Greek intellectuals argue that love between males is the highest form, while sex with women is lustful and utilitarian.

Plato spoke of the " stage of human life " and Shakespeare crafted the famous sentence " All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players ".

*" Gender in the academy: women and learning from Plato to Princeton: an exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of undergraduate coeducation at Princeton University " / organized by Natalie Zemon Davis ...

However, Plato reports that syntax was devised before him, by Prodicus of Ceos, who was concerned by the correct use of words.

This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium ( Plato ) | Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home.

Agathon is portrayed by Plato as a handsome young man, well dressed, of polished manners, courted by the fashion, wealth and wisdom of Athens, and dispensing hospitality with ease and refinement.

Although the authenticity of this epigram was accepted for many centuries, it was probably not composed for Agathon the tragedian, nor was it composed by Plato.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

* Lovers ' Lips by Plato in the Project Gutenberg eText Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. Mackail.

The press was started by Aldus based on his love of classics, and at first printed new copies of Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek and Latin classics.

In the Gorgias written years later Plato has Socrates contemplating the possibility of himself on trial before the Athenians: he says he would be like a doctor prosecuted by a pastry chef before a jury of children.

Though both ended up as rogue governments and did not follow through on their constitutional promises, they began as responses from the Athenian elite to what they saw as the inherent arbitrariness of government by the masses ( Plato in the Seventh Epistle does remark that the Thirty made the preceding democratic regime look like a Golden Age ).

In Critias, Plato claims that his accounts of ancient Athens and Atlantis stem from a visit to Egypt by the legendary Athenian lawgiver Solon in the 6th century BC.

The next sentence is often translated " Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars are narrated by Plato are written on pillars which are still preserved.

In his dialogues ( e. g. Republic 399e, 592a ), Plato has Socrates utter, " by the dog " ( kai me ton kuna ), " by the dog of Egypt ", " by the dog, the god of the Egyptians " ( Gorgias, 482b ), for emphasis.

Journalist Bee Wilson states that the image of a community of honey bees " occurs from ancient to modern times, in Aristotle and Plato ; in Virgil and Seneca ; in Erasmus and Shakespeare ; Tolstoy, as well as by social theorists Bernard Mandeville and Karl Marx.

The book is heavily influenced by Plato and his dialogues ( as was Boethius himself ).

Most in cognitive science, however, presumably do not believe their field is the study of anything as certain as the knowledge sought by Plato.

However, Empedocles of Acragas, is best known for having selected all elements as his archai and by the time of Plato, the four Empedoclian elements of were well established.