... was born in Athens in 428 BC to an aristocratic and well-off family. Even as a young child Plato was familiar with political life because his father, Ariston was the last king of Athens. Ariston died when Plato was a young boy. J.J O"Connor states that, "However, the excessive Athenian political life, which was under the oligarchical rule of the Thirty Tyrants and ... most pervasive justification of the author's notion that a sensible and comprehensible control over human affairs can be learnt from splendid poems. Another man who had objections to the stage is name Jeremy Collier. Accor...

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