How did the Greek mathematician Plato die?
Plato died in in 347BC while attending a wedding feast. Please try the links below : – Plato, c.427-347 B.C. plato.jpg (9351 bytes) Although born possibly in Athens of an aristocratic family, little is known of Plato’s early life. He did see military service in the … http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/plat… The American Scholar, 65 (Summer, 1996). 401-15. Plato did not drink hemlock by order of the laws of the democracy. To be sure, he did die in the evening, like Socrates. Athens could have let Socrates die … http://www.morec.com/schall/docs/dieplat… Plato http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Old age. The first of Plato’s remaining two Sicilian adventures came after Dionysius I died and his young son, Dionysius II, ascended to the throne. His uncle/brother-in-law Dion persuaded the young tyrant to invite Plato to come to help him become a philosopher-ruler of the sort described in the Republic. Although the philosopher (now in his sixties) was not entirely persuaded of this possibility ( Seventh Letter 328b-c), he agreed to go. This trip, like the last one, however, did not go well at all. Within months, the younger Dionysius had Dion sent into exile for sedition ( Seventh Letter 329c, Third Letter 316c-d), and Plato became effectively under house arrest as the “personal guest” of the dictator ( Seventh Letter 329c-330b). Plato eventually managed to gain the tyrant’s permission to return to Athens ( Seventh Letter 338a), and he and Dion were reunited at the Academy (Plut. Dion 17). Dionysius agreed that “after the war” ( Seventh Letter 338a; perhaps the Lucanian War in 365
