[hihihihi1234]

Modern philosophy courses tend to give equal weight to Aristotle and Plato (with a side order of Socrates), but for most of Western history the only pre-Christian philosopher that anyone cared about was Aristotle, who was often simply referred to as "The Philosopher". Plato was largely ignored and forgotten until there was a burst of scholarly interest in him in the 19th century.

Source: some random thing I read online somewhere; I might be wrong in the details.

[dr_dshiv]

This is really not true, sorry. Plato was huge in the Renaissance and his academy ran in Athens (not continuously) from about 400BC-550AD. Platonism had a major influence on the formation and reception of Christianity and Islam, as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism

[hihihihi1234]

You may be right, I'm very far from being an expert. Was just repeating something I read somewhere.