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Plato dies, aged about eighty

c. 348/347 BCE, Athens. An event.

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c. 348/347 BCEAthens

about 2,372.5 years ago

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Plato dies in Athens in his eighty-first year and is buried at the Academy. One story has him dying at a wedding feast.

He died, according to Hermippus, at a wedding feast, in the first year of the 108th Olympiad, in his eightyfirst year.

Diogenes Laertius 3.2Translated by R. D. Hicks (1925)Read the full passage (Diogenes Laertius 3.2, opens scaife.perseus.org)

He was buried in the Academy, where he spent the greatest part of his life in philosophical study.

Diogenes Laertius 3.41Translated by R. D. Hicks (1925)Read the full passage (Diogenes Laertius 3.41, opens scaife.perseus.org)

Background: Plato, Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org)

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