A disciple of Socrates and founder of the Academy of Athens, Plato developed in dialogues such as the Republic, the Timaeus, and other texts a philosophical system spanning metaphysics, political philosophy, and cosmology. His thought reached the medieval Arab tradition via Hunayn ibn Ishaq's translations and exegesis in 9th-century Abbasid Baghdad, and from there, alongside Aristotle and Galen, reached medieval Latin Europe.