Plato's final hours 'revealed': Ancient scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius claims the Greek philosopher spent his last night listening to music - and blasting the slave-girl flautist's 'lack of rhythm

Daily Mail ^ | 29 April 2024 | Sam Lawley

[mairdie]

I still have my college texts of the original writings of Plato in the hall. Really should re-read Plato's Symposium, always a favorite.

[mairdie]

Always thinking of you when I think of ancient history.

Egyptian Fayum Portraits of the Ptolemaic Period
https://youtu.be/ghLdvoR81f4

[Candor7]

https://platosacademy.org/a-short-history-of-platos-academy/

[Libloather]

[Palio di Siena]

Criticizing his slave’s lack of rhythm while playing the flute could mean something else.

[Adder]

in a designated garden within the university grounds

So get the lydar and get to looking...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

At least we knew about Socrates’ last night;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVc8jwYexjE

[mkmensinger]

Little known fact: The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Georgias’ last name was George.

[one guy in new jersey]

Hey now!

[one guy in new jersey]

hemlock was it?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

It’s poison.

[one guy in new jersey]

yeah it is!

[Buttons12]

I always suspected he’d come to no good.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mairdie! Finally a real blockbuster find in the papyri.

[Red Badger]

Only if you drink it....................

[teeman8r]

Plato they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey, every day.

[SunkenCiv]

His original name was Aristocles, although there’s a YouTuber who makes the unfounded claim that it wasn’t, attributing this to a paper published in 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato#Names

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sae5h5V4EnY

[Mr. K]

Really? That seems to promote homosexual behavior

[Reily]

Plato was supposedly a nickname from his days as a Olympic competitor in wrestling.

[The Great RJ]

Perhaps the library contained a copy of Aristotle’s missing book of Poetics