Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "broad")[1] (428/427 BC[a] – 348/347
BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of
philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first
institution of higher learning in the western world.   One of the most important
events in Plato's life was his encounter with Socrates during his youth.  Plato
was a follower of Socrates until Socrates's trial and death in 399
B.C.  Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle,Plato helped
to lay the foundations of Western philosophy.   Plato was originally a student
of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw
as his teacher's unjust death.
Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-
five dialogues and thirteen letters have traditionally been ascribed to him,
although modern scholarship doubts the authenticity of at least some of
these.   Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led
to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato's texts.
There is little question that Plato lectured at the Academy that he founded,  
The dialogues since Plato's time have been used to teach a range of subjects,
mostly including philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects
about which he wrote.
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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) He
was born in 384 B.C. In the city of Stagira, in Macedonia.  His father held the
position of personal physician to the King of Macedonia.   In 367 B.C.
Aristotle left his home to attend Plato’s Academy, where he remained for
almost twenty years, first as a student then as a teacher.   Aristotle moved to
Asia Minor where a friend of his, Hermias, ruled.
He then traveled to Lesbos where he studied biology and natural history.
There he met Theophrasus who became Aristotle’s collaborator. In 343 B.C.
Aristotle was invited to tutor Alexander, the son of King Philip of Macedonia.
Young Alexander would later become Alexander the Great. He taught the
prince for at lest two years.   When Alexander the Great became King of
Macedonia in 336 B.C., Aritstotle returned to Macedonia and opened up his
own school, the Lyceum. Aristotle's lecture notes from the Lyceum and
Plato’s Academy covered courses on almost every branch of knowledge
and art. The texts on which Aristotle's reputation rests are largely based on
these lecture notes, which were collected and arranged by later editors. His
partner in science, Theophrasus, later succeeded him as the head of the
Lyceum.
Aristotle's works were lost in the West after the decline of Rome. During the
9th century A.D., Arab scholars introduced Aristotle, in Arabic translation, to
the Islamic world. Until the 20th century, logic meant Aristotle's logic. Until
the Renaissance, and even later, astronomers and poets alike admired his
concept of the geo-centric universe and construct of a physical world
based on the four elements (earth, water, air, and fire).Aristotle died in 322 B.
C. At the age of 63.
Greek: Σωκράτης, Sōkrátēs; c.
469 BC–399 BC  was a Classical
Greek philosopher. Credited as one of
the founders of Western philosophy,
he is an enigmatic figure known
mostly through the classical accounts
of his students.   Plato's dialogues are
the most comprehensive accounts of
Socrates to survive from antiquity.  
Socrates has become renowned for
his contribution to the field of ethics,
and it is this Socrates who also lends
his name to the concepts of Socratic
irony and the Socratic method, or
elenchus. The latter remains a
commonly used tool in a wide range
of discussions, and is a type of
pedagogy in which a series of
questions are asked not only to draw
individual answers, but to encourage
fundamental insight into the issue at
hand.   It is Plato's Socrates that also
made important and lasting
contributions to the fields of
epistemology and logic, and the
influence of his ideas and approach
remains strong in providing a
foundation for much western
philosophy that followed.
Alexander the Great (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας or Μέγας
Ἀλέξανδρος,[1] Mégas Aléxandros; 356 BC – 323 BC),[He was one of
the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed
undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered (see Wars
of Alexander the Great) most of the known world (as known to the ancient
Greeks).[4][5][n 1]
Alexander assumed the kingship of Macedon following the death of his
father Philip II, who had unified[6] most of the city-states of mainland Greece
under Macedonian hegemony in a federation called the League of Corinth.
[7] After reconfirming Macedonian rule by quashing a rebellion of southern
Greek city-states and staging a short but bloody excursion against
Macedon's northern neighbours, Alexander set out east against the
Achaemenid Persian Empire, which he defeated and overthrew. His
conquests included Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Bactria
and Mesopotamia, and he extended the boundaries of his own empire as far
as Punjab, India.

Alexander integrated many foreigners into his army, leading some scholars
to credit him with a "policy of fusion". He also encouraged marriages
between his soldiers and foreigners, and he himself went on to marry two
foreign princesses.

Alexander died after twelve years of constant military campaigning, possibly
a result of malaria, poisoning, typhoid fever, viral encephalitis or the
consequences of alcoholism.[8][9] His legacy and conquests lived on long
after him and ushered in centuries of Greek settlement and cultural
influence over distant areas. This period is known as the Hellenistic period,
which featured a combination of Greek, Middle Eastern and Indian culture.
PANDORA'S BOX (IS REALLY A JAR)
After Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, Zeus ordered
Hephaestus to create the woman Pandora as part of the punishment for
mankind.   Pandora was given many seductive gifts from Aphrodite,
Hermes, Hera, Charites, and Horae (according to Works and Days).   For fear
of additional reprisals, Prometheus warned his brother Epimetheus not to
accept any gifts from Zeus, but Epimetheus did not listen, and married
Pandora.   Pandora had been given a large jar and instruction by Zeus to
keep it closed, but she had also been given the gift of curiosity, and
ultimately opened it.   When she opened it, all of the evils, ills, diseases, and
burdensome labor that mankind had not known previously, escaped from
the jar, but it is said, that at the very bottom of her box, there lay hope.

There is no reason to think Pandora acted out of malice in opening the jar,
for she was exercising her curiosity, and also when she saw what was let
out of it, she quickly closed it.
We need to remember that this goddess's name means, "sender of gifts."
HE ALSO REMINDS
ME OF A VERY GOOD
FRIEND OF MIND,
TERRY S!