The Allegory of the Cave. The dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon is probably fictitious and composed by Plato; whether or not the allegory originated with Socrates, or if Plato is using his mentor as a stand-in for his own idea, is unclear. In the dialogue, Socrates asks Glaucon to imagine a cave, in which prisoners are kept.
The d sublevel consists of five orbitals that can hold a maximum of  two electrons each. The total maximum number of electrons that the  d sublevel can hold is 10 electrons.
Therefore, the K shell, which contains only an s subshell, can hold up to 2 electrons; the L shell, which contains an s and a p, can hold up to 2 + 6 = 8 electrons, and so forth; in general, the nth shell can hold up to 2n 2 electrons.