Seventh Letter

genre:  epistle
part of:  Epistles
part of the series:  Epistles
original language:  Ancient Greek
follows:  Sixth Letter
followed by:  Eighth Letter

The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse. It also contains an extended philosophical interlude concerning the possibility of writing true philosophical works and the theory of forms. Assuming that the letter is authentic, it was written after Dion was assassinated by Calippus in 353 BC and before the latter was in turn overthrown a year later. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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