Hey, remember project #EuropeanBios? Well I do! I finished Alexander the Great today and it was excellent. But first, for completeness, I need to do a tiny thread about Plato and Aristotle. I read a single, not very good bio that covered them both.
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The most surprising fact I learned about Plato is that his real name wasn't Plato. His birth name was Aristocles, and Plato was a nickname given to him as a kid because of either his broad build or possibly his broad forehead, because "platus" meant "broad".
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As you've probably heard, Plato was a student of Socrates, but there is not a lot of original writing of Socrates around that has survived, so most of what we know about Socrates is stuff that Plato said he said.
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