Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Plato across 3 places, from 396 BC to 347 BC.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Plato (born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Plato was documented, and when
396 BCyear
Classical Athensattested“In roughly 396 BC, Plato left Athens and studied in Megara with Euclid of Megara, founder of the Megarian school of philosophy, and other Socratics.”source: Wikipedia: Plato
396 BCyear
Megaraattested“In roughly 396 BC, Plato left Athens and studied in Megara with Euclid of Megara, founder of the Megarian school of philosophy, and other Socratics.”source: Wikipedia: Plato
383 BCyear
Syracuse, Sicilyattested“After his return from Syracuse, Plato founded his philosophical school, the Academy, near the sacred olive grove of Hecademus, in roughly 383 BC.”source: Wikipedia: Plato
367 BC to 366 BCperiod
Syracuse, Sicilyattested“After Dionysius I's death in 367 BC, Plato returned to Syracuse, likely early in 366 BC, at the request of Dion, in order to tutor Dionysius II and guide him to become a philosopher king.”source: Wikipedia: Plato
360 BCyear
Classical Athensattested“After 360 BC, Plato returned to Athens, where he spent the remainder of his life.”source: Wikipedia: Plato
347 BCyear
Classical Athensattested“In 348/347 BC, Plato died and was buried in his garden in the Academy in Athens.”source: Wikipedia: Plato
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Places Plato is documented in
Classical Athens3 presences · 396 BC to 347 BC
Syracuse, Sicily2 presences · 383 BC to 367 BC
Megara1 presence · 396 BC
Other places tied to Plato in the record
In each of these, a source puts Plato and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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403 BCyear
Piraeusmentioned“In 403 BC, the democracy was restored after the regrouping of the democrats in exile, who entered the city through the Piraeus and met the forces of the Thirty at the Battle of Munychia, where both Critias and Charmides were killed.”source: Wikipedia: Plato
403 BCyear
Battle of Munychiamentioned“In 403 BC, the democracy was restored after the regrouping of the democrats in exile, who entered the city through the Piraeus and met the forces of the Thirty at the Battle of Munychia, where both Critias and Charmides were killed.”source: Wikipedia: Plato
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