* 428/427 B.C. in Athens or Aegina
+ 348/347 B.C. in Athens
Plato (left) and Aristotle (right)
The School of Athens
(by Raphael)
Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in
Ancient Greece,
founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy,
the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.