(429 BCE - 347 BCE)
Plato was perhaps the first Wholly writer in the Western tradition. He wrote Timaeus, which gave a detailed description of Atlantis. A student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, he founded the Academy in Athens, one of the first institutions of higher learning. His philosophical works explore justice, beauty, equality, politics, epistemology, and metaphysics, particularly his theory of Forms or Ideas.