Reading Comphernsive - Plato's cricle

[shahar]

I don't understand the context of the expression "Plato's circle" and the context.
(1) What is the meaning in other words?
(2) What is the content that the article refer to?
Thank ahead.
Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, ... He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says. ... of the so-called Platonic figures.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

I don't understand the context of the expression "Plato's circle" and the context.
(1) What is the meaning in other words?
(2) What is the content that the article refer to?
Thank ahead.
Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, ... He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says. ... of the so-called Platonic figures.

Which article?

 

[shahar]

Thanks on the typo

Thanks about the typo
here it is:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Euclid.html

 

[Deleted member 4993]

I don't understand the context of the expression "Plato's circle" and the context.
(1) What is the meaning in other words?
(2) What is the content that the article refer to?
Thank ahead.
Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, ... He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says. ... of the so-called Platonic figures.

Here the circle refers to "close acquaintances" - circle of friends.

 

[shahar]

Here the circle refers to "close acquaintances" - circle of friends.

He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says.

What the meaning of the expression "for these were...":
Who (or what) are "these"?

 

[JeffM]

I don't understand the context of the expression "Plato's circle" and the context.
(1) What is the meaning in other words?
(2) What is the content that the article refer to?
Thank ahead.
Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, ... He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says. ... of the so-called Platonic figures.

You probably should have asked this at English Learners Stack Exchange, where they certainly would have insisted on a source.

But there is an idiom in English, namely "circle of X" or "X's circle," where X refers to a specific person, that means the friends, acquaintances, or students of X.

 

[shahar]

O.K.

You probably should have asked this at English Learners Stack Exchange, where they certainly would have insisted on a source.

But there is an idiom in English, namely "circle of X" or "X's circle," where X refers to a specific person, that means the friends, acquaintances, or students of X.

"...He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says."

Who are these?

 

[Dr.Peterson]

"...He is therefore younger than Plato's circle, but older than Eratosthenes and Archimedes; for these were contemporaries, as Eratosthenes somewhere says."

Who are these?

"These" refers to the nearer antecedents, namely Eratosthenes and Archimedes.

See any dictionary; this one says, "the one more recently referred to".

 

[shahar]

Thanks!!!!!