Plato

Family: Greek · Role: philosopher · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 30

In Book 1, Chapter 30, the night before Plato became Socrates’s pupil, Socrates dreamed that “a swan flew into his bosom”; the dream was said to foretell Plato’s excellence in Philosophy. In Book 4, Chapter 32, Plato is identified as the son of Aristo.

Relationship record

Life events

• Socrates dreamed of a swan, foretelling Plato’s excellence in Philosophy.(Book 1 · Chapter 30)
  • With: Socrates
  • “Socrates, the night before Plato was going to be his pupil, dreamed that a swan flew into his bosom.”

Book 1 · Chapter 30

• mentor: Socrates (Plato was going to be Socrates' pupil.) “the night before Plato was going to be his pupil, dreamed that a swan flew into his bosom”

Book 4 · Chapter 32

• parent: Aristo “notably Plato the son of Aristo.”

Book 7 · Chapter 17

• parent: Aristo “Plato the son of Aristo most true”

Book 10 · Chapter 24

• parent: Aristo “the seventh Plato (the son of Aristo) makes Myson of Chenæ, a village on Mount Œta, instead of Periander the son of Cypselus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.