![]() ![]() An important source about Plato’s life is his philosophical dialogues, thirteen letters (possibly false though, with the possible exception of Letters VII and VIII), the writings of Aristotle, an excerpt from the Epicurean Philodemus of Gadara’s History of Philosophers ( Syntaxis ton philosophon). Other early biographers of Plato are Olympiodorus the Younger in the sixth century (Grotius 1826) (Filippi 2017, 5-12 (I)) and an anonymous source (Westermann 1964, 388–96). ![]() He also wrote a funeral praise for Plato. The Greek historian Diogenes (2nd and 3rd centuries) is the author of a series of biographies of Greek philosophers ( The Lives of Philosophers) in which he refers to the life of Plato (Laertius 2018). All of Plato’s other biographies were written more than five hundred years after his death. The earliest biography of Plato (Riginos 1976) to date, De Platone et dogmate eius, is by a second-century Latin author, Apuleius (Apuleius 100AD). The main biographical source about Plato, according to the testimony of the Neoplatonic Simplicius (Aristotle 2021), was written by the disciple Xenocrates, but unfortunately it has not reached us. An important source about Plato’s life is his philosophical dialogues is his thirteen letters (possibly false though, with the possible exception of Letters VII and VIII), the writings of Aristotle, an excerpt from the Epicurean Philodemus of Gadara’s History of Philosophers ( Syntaxis ton philosophon), 1st century BC, Prolegomena’s anonymous writings on Platonic philosophy traditionally attributed to Olympiodorus, Suda, 10th century and Plutarch’s Life of Dio, 1st-2nd Century. Other early biographers of Plato are Olympiodorus the Younger in the sixth century and an anonymous source. The Greek historian Diogenes (2nd and 3rd centuries) is the author of a series of biographies of Greek philosophers ( The Lives of Philosophers) in which he refers to the life of Plato. The earliest biography of Plato to date, De Platone et dogmate eius, is by a second-century Latin author, Apuleius. ![]() The main biographical source about Plato, according to the testimony of the Neoplatonic Simplicius, was written by the disciple Xenocrates, but unfortunately it has not reached us. ![]()
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