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Plato
Greek philosopher whose teachings and writings constitute an essential part of Western philosophy. His family was highly distinguished; his father claimed descent from the last king of Athens, and his mother was related to Critias and Charmides, extremist leaders of the oligarchic terror of 404. Plato (whose acquired name refers to his broad forehead, and thus his range of knowledge) must have known Socrates from boyhood. After Socrates' death, he fled Athens for Megara, then spent the next 12 years in travel. He returned in 387 and soon founded the famous school of philosophy called the Academy, where he taught Aristotle. Building on Socrates' life and thought, he developed a profound and wide-ranging philosophical system (see Platonism). His thought has logical, epistemological, and metaphysical aspects, but much of its underlying motivation is ethical. It is presented in his many dialogues, in most of which Socrates plays a leading role (e.g., Apology, Protagoras, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic, Sophist, Timaeus, and Laws). See also Neoplatonism.
slate
Fine-grained, clayey metamorphic rock that splits readily into thin slabs that have great tensile strength and durability. Some other rocks that occur in thin beds are improperly called slate because they can be used for roofing and similar purposes. True slates generally split not along the bedding plane but along planes of cleavage that may intersect the bedding plane at high angles. Slates may be black, blue, purple, red, green, or gray. Slate may be marketed either as dimension slate, used mainly for electrical panels, laboratory tabletops, roofing, and flooring, or as crushed slate, used on composition roofing, in aggregates, and as a filler.
Slavs
Most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. They live chiefly in E and SE Europe but also extend across N Asia to the Pacific. Slavs are customarily subdivided into E Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians), W Slavs (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Wends, or Sorbs) and S Slavs (Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and Macedonians). Historically, W Slavs were integrated into Western Europe; their societies developed along the lines of other Western European nations. E and S Slavs suffered Mongol and Turkish invasions and evolved more autocratic, state-centered forms of government. Religion (mainly Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) divides Slavs, as does the use of the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. In the Middle Ages Slavic polities that left a rich cultural heritage developed in Bohemia, Poland, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Bulgaria, but by the end of the 18th cent., all these states had been absorbed by powerful neighbors (the Ottoman empire, Austria, Hungary, Prussia, Russia). Medieval E Slavic history was marked by often unsuccessful attempts to repel Asian invaders until the 16th cent., when Muscovy, later Russia, embarked on a course of expansion across N and ...
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