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Plato Uncovered: Building Influence in the Ancient and Modern World

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The Network Structure of Plato

There are lists and antiquity of all of Plato's students who went on to get involved in politics. I think a lot of what we know about how networks work and practice comes from later sources, the way that they write letters to each other. There's something really deep that he's tapping into, but he's making it specific with this kind of brotherhood of philosophy.

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