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Philip of Opus
Philip of Opus
c. 385 BCE · Athens
Philip of Opus was a Greek philosopher and astronomer of the fourth century BCE, a pupil and associate of Plato. By ancient tradition he edited Plato's last and unfinished work, the "Laws," preparing it for publication after his master's death, and he is widely thought to be the author of the appendix to it known as the "Epinomis." He also had interests in mathematics and astronomy, though little of his own work survives.
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The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
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