Events Tagged: "Plato"

Plato's Symposium - philosophical dialogue at drinking party, wine enables truth but requires moderation

Cosimo founds Platonic Academy in Florence - Marsilio Ficino leads revival of Platonism in West

Ficino translates Plato and Hermes Trismegistus (1462-1463) - Medici commission - Hermetic texts believed ancient - Mix of magic, astrology, alchemy - 'As above, so below'

Ficino completes Latin translation of Plato's complete works - first in West, transforms European philosophy