Plato

Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "broad"; 428/427 or 424/423 BCE – 348/347 BCE) was a philosopher and mathematician during the Classical Greece era, and is seen as an important influential figurehead in the study of philosophy, going so far as being central to Western philosophy. A student of another great and influential philosopher, Socrates, he founded the Academy in Athens, known as the first institution of higher learning in the entirety of the Western world. He also taught the next great influential philosophers, Aristotle,Socrates,Pythagoras,Homer,Parmenides,Aesop and Heraclitus