Greece – 2 Euro, 2400 anniversary of Plato's Academy, 2013

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2 Euro coins BU / UNC
Issue year: 2013
Face Value: 2 Euro
Quality: UNC
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Plato Greek: Πλάτων, Platon, (428BC– 348BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece. He was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. The Academy (Ancient Greek: Aκαδήμεια) was founded by Plato (428BC – 348 BC) in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years. There is evidence of lectures given, most notably Plato's lecture "On the Good"; but probably the use of dialectic was more common. According to an unverifiable story, above the entrance to the Academy was inscribed the phrase "Let None But Geometers Enter Here". The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC. Although philosophers continued to teach Plato's philosophy in Athens during the Roman era, it was not until AD 410 that a revived Academy was re-established as a center for Neoplatonism, persisting until 529 AD when it was finally closed down by Justinian I.