Plato: the world’s greatest philosopher?
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The Origins of Plato's Letters
There are 13 letters that have some claim to authenticity because they were included very early on, probably by the end of the third century BCE. The ancient biographies do contain quite a lot of silly stories like that. And they give the broad trajectory of Plato's life quite accurately, but the details are not very useful at all.
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