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The Century of Plato

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The period to be discussed in the present chapter, opens with the death of Socrates by the hemlock cup (399) and closes at the moment when Alexander the Great scatters the seed of Hellenistic culture over the entire world of antiquity.

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Van Der Waerden, B.L. (1975). The Century of Plato. In: Science Awakening I. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1379-0_6

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