Plato’s dialogues are clearly literature and they deeply impacted 3 major religions and western civilization. Xenophon’s Cyropaedia was used by Alexander the G

Plato’s dialogues are clearly literature and they deeply impacted 3 major religions and western civilization. Xenophon’s Cyropaedia was used by Alexander the Great as a sort of field guide. Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis was a key inspiration for Hooke and Newton.