Is Plato the Father of Realism?

Even anti realists, in a way, they're showing that plato remains relevant. Many of them actually don't have anything terribly directly to do with realism. Things like a mino's par ox comes up all the time in if you take an introductory epistemology course,. And that's just a very general puzzle about how we come to know things. But it's also something that's inspired generations of people a doing contemporaryEpistemology trying to figure out what the right ser is.