[dayglored]

Geez Louise, everybody’s a critic....

[HYPOCRACY]

Plato should be cancelled for owning a slave girl.

[rdl6989]

Ping

[baclava]

Thracian slave girls were well known for other talents, oh yeah

[Bullish]

...a Thracian slave girl.

So that's what they called them in those days.

[dfwgator]

[VanShuyten]

There are hundreds, if not thousands of these charred scrolls from the Roman houses around Vesuvius. I expect more and more to be deciphered as imaging and AI processing gets increasingly better.

A lot happened in Rome after the eruption, but there should still be quite a bit of Roman Republic and Greek writing rediscovered. Can’t wait!

[x]

When Plato found out that he wasn’t a planet anymore life just wasn’t worth living ...

[aquila48]

“died in Athens around 348BC – retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm”

I think the slave girl did him in by hitting him over the head with the flute.

[GSWarrior]

Plato told the girl “your A is not A.”

[Beowulf9]

Really I am impressed at this ability. I wonder what other fabulous things they might uncover at the Villa of the Papyri.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Maybe she was playing “I’m just a slave of a slave of a ...”

[SunkenCiv]

• 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 [04/29/2024]

[bitt]

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