It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.

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Like Plato, Goethe or Berlin, writers and philosophers had long drifted in and out of public view, holding forth on life in general.

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After those came Plato, briefly, and finally Aristotle (whom she would later cite as her only influence, literary or otherwise).

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