Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece Chapter 59: Plato
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Because even excellent people, when they are young, because of insufficient knowledge and experience, they are easy to be impulsive, reckless, and easy to be tempted. Children born in this period often inherit these shortcomings, and when the outstanding people are mature in thought, they give birth to The child will be steady and thinking..."
Hearing this, some students showed joy, and if they got something, some students are still thinking about it.
Spicyps continued to ask: "Teacher, you once said,'In the current Greek city-states, Sparta is the best monarchy you have ever seen. The twin kings, the council of elders, and the supervisory Officials... The establishment of these positions made Sparta a mixed royal regime. No one party has absolute tyrannical rights, and the greed for power is strongly restricted.'...
But now Sparta violates the Greek tradition and tyrannically invaded Thebes. What do you think of this? "
"Spisips." Plato faced Spisips, his eyes always had a touch of kindness, because Spisips was the son of his sister Potone, and he said mildly: " I have said that Sparta is a good monarchy. It does not mean that it will follow the rules and become a city-state that completely follows the Greek tradition. It is precisely this kind of government of Sparta that enables it to dominate Peloponnese for a long time. There are no major problems in the country. In today’s chaotic situation, Sparta still holds the dominance of the Greek city-states. Isn’t this the role played by its institutional advantages?
However, Thebes is not another weak city-state, and it is not easy for Sparta to completely enslave it. On the contrary, it occupied the Acropolis of Thebes for a long time, which would only increase the antipathy of the Thebes towards Sparta. One day, this kind of resentment will cause a fire and burn the Spartan army, just like Serasibulus led the Athenian people to overthrow the tyrant rule..."
"Teacher Plato, since Sparta is the best royal regime in the Greek city-states, what do you think of the royal regime of Dionia?" Aliforon from Corinth asked.
Dionia! Hearing this name, Plato's heart rippled. He once yearned to visit this alliance of city-states in the Western Mediterranean, but he could not make the trip due to various reasons. He always had a regret in his heart.
Just as he was distracted, Oleas retorted: "Dionia is not a Greek city-state, it is a regime of aliens."
Aliforon retorted: "You have watched the drama "Dionians" too much. The main ethnic group in the Kingdom of Dionians is the Greeks. The city that Likri called on all the Greeks to build, there are also Crotone, Tarantum, Lokri...These are all famous Greek cities in the Western Mediterranean. How can Dionia not belong to Greece? Up?!"
"Dionia has not been recognized by Delphi. It can't even participate in the four major sports games. How can it be recognized as a Greek country?" Oleas retorted again.
"I heard that Ellis issued several invitations to Dionian under Sparta’s instructions, but Dionian proposed,'As long as it agrees to allow foreign citizens to participate in the Olympia Games, it will send a representative team. "Ellis did not agree, Dionia has not participated in the Olympia Games." Spiesips reminded.
"Doesn't this just show that our Greek city-states have doubts about Dionian identification?"
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Plato did not stop the students from arguing. While listening to the opinions of the students, he was also thinking about how to better answer Aliforon’s question.
At this time, the gatekeeper of the academy came over and respectfully said to Plato: "Someone outside asked to see you, and he said he was from Dionia."
As soon as the door guard's voice fell, everyone in the room stopped talking.
We are discussing Dionia. I didn’t expect the people from Dionia to come. This is a coincidence!
"Let him come over." Plato is also curious. He doesn't have any friends in Dionia. The only one he knows is Lycias. It is said that he had a good time in Turriy.
After a while, the doorman led a young man towards them.
Everyone's eyes were focused on him curiously. The young man didn't feel restrained at all. He saluted Plato generously, and then respectfully said: "I am Foster Kada, from Dionian Academy. , Entrusted by Teacher Gorgia, I will send you a letter from him and wait for your reply."
Gorgia! Plato was surprised, and asked: "I remember Gorgia should be in Leottini, and I visited him when I was in Sicily a few years ago. When did he go to Dionia?"
Foster Kada thought for a while and replied: "It's about six years in Dionia. King Davos personally invited him to be a teacher at Dionian Academy, and he accepted the invitation." /
Plato has studied Dionia, so he still knows the unique dating method of Dionia. Weilu said in surprise: "That should be shortly after I met Gorgia. Matter. He told me at the time that he was old and in poor health. He would not visit Athens again. He did not expect to go to Turíy in Dionia again..."
Foster Kada proudly said: "That’s because Doctor Dionia has superb medical skills and can treat Gorgia’s disease. The excellent environment of Dionia College is conducive to his research and learning. Professor students, that’s why they impressed him."
Plato nodded and asked: "Are you a student of Gorgia?"
Fosterkada hesitated and said, "Gorgia is my teacher, I learn philosophy from him. But I also learn history from teacher Ansitanos, and mathematics from teacher Mattiks , Geometry, learn rhetoric and debate from teacher Lycias..."
Hearing this, Plato sighed in his heart: Akademi College is an educational place for him to train outstanding students and realize his political ideals. He didn't want every student to receive a multifaceted, high-quality education. But unlike Diomea Academy, which is funded by the entire kingdom and has extremely rich teaching resources, Akademi Academy is the private property of him and his friends. From its establishment to now, except for himself and the occasional few My friend, I haven’t invited a famous scholar to teach the students advanced knowledge of mathematics and geometry. Although he also dabbles in this area, he can’t fully satisfy some students’ desire for further study, so it is more for them to read by themselves. Collection of books. For this reason, Plato spent a lot of energy and collected various knowledge books through various channels.
Plato did not question any more, but instead opened Gorgia's letter.
As he read the letter, curious students have begun to communicate with Foster Kada.
"We have long heard that Dionian Academy is the largest place for education and knowledge in the Western Mediterranean. Compared with our Akademi, which one is better?" Athens is the most economic and cultural among the Greek city-states. The prosperous city was once called "the best school in all of Greece" by Pericles. Therefore, young people in Athens have a kind of cultural self-confidence. For those from the colony, they always have a sense of pride, even these positive ones. Young people with higher education are no exception.
Foster Kada looked at their expressions, did not answer directly, but seriously asked: "How big is your academy?"
"About ten acres of land."
"How many teachers are there?" Foster Kada asked again calmly.
"Not only do we have Teacher Plato, but also... Teacher Sai Aettus also often comes to teach us math." For fear of being underestimated, Oleas added the occasional Athens Mathematician Sayettus.
"How many students are there?"
"There are 23 people, some of them are reading books in the library of the academy..."
After listening to this, Foster Kadaon started and said loudly: "The Dionian College covers an area of 150 acres, and its area is like a small town. There are more than 20 large and small buildings in the academy, and more than 300 students. Famous, 15 well-known scholars, including teacher Lycias who wrote "Rhetorical Debate", teacher Ansitanos who wrote "History of Great Greece", invented the theory of pulley mechanics, lever mechanics, and pitch fluctuation theory , Mr. Maticulis, who wrote "Human Anatomy" and "A Preliminary Study of Illness", and Mr. Gorgia who wrote "On Existence or Nature", invented new musical lyric poems. Teacher Ferrosanus... In addition to these famous scholars, we have more than 20 teachers, more than 100 staff serving students and teachers...
Our students have many courses, including philosophy, rhetoric, law, mathematics, astronomy, history, poetry, biology, music... In addition, we have to do physical exercises and even hold some competitions to ensure our physical and mental harmony , And at the same time exercise our will to win.
In order to be able to devote ourselves to learning, we all have our own residences in the college...Oh, yes! There is also a large library in the Dionian Academy, which now has more than 5,000 books, not only Greek writings, but also Persian, Egyptian, and Carthage... such as Carthage’s agricultural books and Persian legal codes. , We have specialized personnel to translate these books..."
Fosterkada's narration made the young people stunned, envy and jealousy intertwined on their faces. Someone couldn't help saying: "What you said sounds good, who knows if it's true?"
Foster Kada sneered: "The Dionian Academy is thousands of miles away from Athens to the west. You can send someone to confirm at any time. You will find that what I said is far from described. Out of the true strength of Dionia Academy."
"The amount of material is not important. It is enough for us to have a Plato teacher to let us master the real knowledge." Spiceps reminded everyone aloud.