Because even if it is an excellent person, when he is young, because of his lack of knowledge and experience, he is prone to impulsiveness, recklessness, and temptation, and the children born during this period tend to inherit these shortcomings, while the children born when the excellent person is mature will be stable and ......thoughtful."

Hearing this, some students were overjoyed, and if they had gained, some students were still thinking.

Spicippus continued: "Teacher, you once said, 'Of the present Greek city-states, Sparta is the best form of kingship you have ever seen. The Twin Kings, the Council of Elders, the Ombudsman...... The establishment of these positions made Sparta a hybrid royal government, where neither side held absolute arbitrary power, and the greed for power was strongly checked. ’……

But what do you think about the fact that Sparta has invaded Thebes by force, contrary to Greek tradition? ”

"Spitipus." Plato faced Spiceppes with a love in his eyes, because Spiceppus was the son of his sister Portone, and he said softly: "I said that Sparta is a good kingship, it does not mean that it will follow the rules and become a city-state that completely follows the Greek tradition, it is precisely this kind of government of Sparta that enables it to dominate the Peloponnese for a long time without major problems at home." In today's chaotic situation, Sparta still holds the dominant control of the Greek city-states, and isn't that the role played by its institutional superiority?

However, Thebes was not another weak city-state, and it was not easy for Sparta to completely enslave it. On the contrary, its occupation of the Theban Acropolis for a long time only increased the antipathy of the Theban populace towards Sparta. Someday, this revulsion will lead to a fire that will burn the Spartan army, just as Thrasibulus led the Athenian people to overthrow the tyrants......"

"Teacher Plato, since Sparta is the best kingship in the Greek city-states, what do you think of the kingship system of Dionia?" Aliflon from Corinth asked.

Dionia! Hearing this name, Plato's heart rippled, he once longed to visit this alliance of city-states in the western Mediterranean, but for various reasons could not make the trip, and there was always a regret in his heart.

Just as he was distracted, Aureas retorted, "Dionya was not a Greek city-state, it was a foreign regime. ”

Aliforon retorted: "You have watched too much of the drama "The Dionians", the main ethnic group of the Kingdom of Dionya is the Greeks, and the center of the kingdom - Turii is the city that Perikles called on all the Greeks to build at the beginning, and it also has Crotone, Tarantum, and Lokry in the country...... These are all famous Greek cities in the Western Mediterranean, how can Dionia not belong to Greece?! ”

"Dionya is not recognized by Delphi, it can't even participate in the four major games, how can it be recognized as a Greek state?" Aureas retorted again.

"I've heard that Ellis sent invitations to Dionya several times at the behest of Sparta, but Dionya offered, 'It will send a team as long as it agrees to allow foreign citizens to participate in the Olympia Games.'" Ellis did not agree, and Dionya did not participate in the Olympia Games. Spitipus reminded.

"Doesn't that just show that our Greek city-states have doubts about Dionia's identity?"

……

Plato did not stop the students' arguments, and while listening to the students' opinions, he was also thinking about how to better answer Aliforon's question.

At this moment, the doorman of the academy came over and said respectfully to Plato: "There is a person outside who asks to see you, and he says that he is from Dionia. ”

As soon as the doorman finished speaking, everyone present stopped talking.

Dionya was being discussed, but I didn't expect Dionia's people to come, which is also too coincidental!

"Let him come." Plato was equally curious, he had no friends in Dionia, the only one he knew was Lycias, who was said to have had a good time in Turiy.

After a while, the doorman led a young man towards them.

Everyone's eyes were curiously focused on him, and the young man did not feel restrained at all, he bowed to Plato generously, and then said respectfully: "I am Fosterkada, from the Dioonian Academy, commissioned by Mr. Gorgias, to send you a letter from him, and waiting for your reply. ”

Gorgias! Plato was surprised, and asked, "I remember that Gorgias should have been in Leotinis, and I had visited him a few years earlier when I was traveling in Sicily. When did he go to Dionia? ”

Forstercada thought for a moment and replied, "It was about six years in Dionia, and King Davers personally invited him to be a teacher at the Dionian Academy, and he accepted the invitation. ”

Plato had studied Dionia, so he was familiar with Dionia's unique way of dating, and said in surprise: "That should be not long after I met Gorgias." He told me at the time that he was too old and not in good health to visit Athens again, but he did not expect to go to Turriyi in Dionia......"

"It was because of Dr. Dionia's great medical skills in treating Mr. Gorgias' illness, and the excellent environment of the Dionian Academy," said him proudly, "so he was impressed by Dr. Dionia's excellent environment for his research and teaching of students. ”

Plato nodded and asked, "Are you a student of Gorgias?" ”

Fostercada hesitated for a moment and said, "Gorgias is my teacher, and I learned philosophy from him. But I also learned history from Mr. Ansitanos, mathematics and geometry from Mr. Matticles, and rhetoric and debate from Mr. Lycias......"

Hearing this, Plato sighed in his heart: Accademia Academy was an educational place for him to cultivate outstanding students and realize his political ideals, and he didn't want every student to receive a multifaceted and high-quality education. But unlike the Diomia Academy, which is funded by the whole kingdom, has incomparably rich teaching resources, the Akademi Academy is the private property of him and his friends, from its establishment to the present, except for himself and a few occasional friends, has not invited famous scholars to teach students advanced mathematics and geometry, although he also dabbles in this area, but can not fully satisfy the desire of some students to further study, so it is more for them to read the collection of books by themselves. To this end, Plato spent a lot of energy and collected books of all kinds of knowledge through various means.

Plato did not ask any more questions, but opened Gorgias's letters.

While he was reading the letter, the curious students had already begun to communicate with Fostercada.

"We have long heard that the Dionian Lyceum is the largest place of educational knowledge in the Western Mediterranean, and which one is better than our Akademi?" Athens was once called "the best school in Greece" by Pericles, the most economically and culturally prosperous city in the Greek city-states, so the young people of Athens had a kind of cultural self-confidence, and they always had a sense of pride in those who came from the colonies, even those who were in higher education.

Fostercada looked at their expressions and did not answer directly, but asked seriously: "How big is your academy?" ”

"About ten acres of land."

"How many teachers are there?" Fostercada asked again quietly.

"Not only do we have Teacher Plato, but we also have ...... Teacher Ceaetus also came to teach us math from time to time. Oreas, for fear of being looked down upon, added the Athenian mathematician Theaetus, who came once in a while.

"How many students are there?"

"There are 23 of them, and a few of them are reading in the library of the school park......"

After hearing this, Fostercada raised his head and said loudly: "The Dioonian Academy covers an area of 150 acres, and its area is like a small town. There are more than 20 large and small buildings in the school park, more than 300 students, and 15 well-known scholars, including Mr. Lysias who wrote "Rhetorical Debate", Mr. Ansitanos who wrote "History of Great Greece", Mr. Matticoris who invented pulley mechanics, lever mechanics, tonal wave theory, and buoyancy theory, Mr. Herps who wrote "Human Anatomy" and "A Preliminary Study of Disease", Mr. Gorgias who wrote "On Being or On Nature", and Mr. Ferrosanus who invented new musical lyric poetry...... In addition to these famous scholars, we have more than 20 teachers and more than 100 people who serve students and teachers......

Our students take a wide range of courses, including philosophy, rhetoric, law, mathematics, astronomy, history, poetry, biology, music, ...... In addition, we have to do physical exercises, and even hold some competitions, to ensure that we are in harmony with our body and mind, and at the same time to exercise our will to win.

In order to be able to devote ourselves to our studies, we all have our own accommodation in the college...... Oh yes! There is also a large library in the Dionian Academy, which now has a collection of more than 5,000 volumes, including not only Greek works, but also Persian, Egyptian, Carthaginian, ...... For example, the Book of Agriculture in Carthage, the legal code of Persia, we have special personnel to translate these books......"

Fosterkada's account left the young people dumbfounded, envy and jealousy intertwined on their faces. Someone couldn't help but say, "What you said sounds good, who knows if it's true?" ”

Fostercada sneered: "The Dionian Academy is thousands of miles away from Athens to the west, you can send someone to confirm it at any time, and you will find that what I said is far from describing the true strength of the Dionian Academy." ”

"It doesn't matter how much or less is material, it is enough for us to have a Plato teacher who can give us real knowledge." Spicippus reminded everyone out loud.