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Plato .
In
Greek mythology , Plato (
PLAY -toe ;
Ancient Greek : Πλάτων or Πλάτωνα Plátōn , pronounced
[plá.tɔːn] means 'broad-shouldered') was an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon either by the
naiad
Cyllene ,
[2]
Nonacris
[3] or by unknown woman.
Mythology
Plato and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them,
Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Plato was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.
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Notes
References
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ISBN
0-674-99135-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Dionysus of Halicarnassus , Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950.
Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt , Vol I-IV . . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .