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Encyclopedia4U - Philolaus - Encyclopedia Article (933 words) |
 | Philolaus (circa 480 BC - circa 405 BC), was a Greek mathematician and philosopher. |
| He lived around 475 BC and he was in Croton during the persecution of the Pythagoreans. |
| His idea was restored and resumed around 345 BC by Heraclides of Heraclea (circa 388 BC-310 BC). |
| MSN Encarta - Plato (570 words) |
| When Plato was a child, his father died, and his mother married Pyrilampes, who was an associate of the statesman Pericles. |
| In 387 bc Plato founded the Academy in Athens, the institution often described as the first European university. |
| Pursuing an opportunity to combine philosophy and practical politics, Plato went to Sicily in 367 bc to tutor the new ruler of Syracuse, Dionysius the Younger, in the art of philosophical rule. |
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