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Which island did Plato say sank in a single day and night?
Answer: Atlantis
Why: The only primary sources for the whole Atlantis story are two of Plato's dialogues, the Timaeus and the Critias.
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Which power does the Ring of Gyges give its wearer?
Answer: Invisibility
Why: Glaucon uses the ring to ask whether anyone would stay just if they could act unseen and never be caught.
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Who took over Plato's school when he died?
Answer: Speusippus
Why: Speusippus was Plato's own nephew, the son of his sister Potone.
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What does Plato's freed prisoner see last outside the cave?
Answer: The sun
Why: In the Republic, the sun stands for the Good, which lets the mind know things just as sunlight lets the eye see them.
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How much of Plato's known writing survives today?
Answer: All of it
Why: The surviving collection even holds works many scholars doubt Plato wrote, such as the Second Alcibiades.
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What birth name do ancient sources give Plato?
Answer: Aristocles
Why: Many modern scholars doubt the story, since Plato was an ordinary name in Athens at the time.
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