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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • taiwan_girlT Offline
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      fascinating.

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      • 89th8 Offline
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        I, for one, refuse to read about a man who spent his remaining hours using a slave for entertainment.

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          Having a Thracian slave girl play my the flute for me.

          Added to the bucket list.

          They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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            Having a Thracian slave girl play my the flute for me.

            Added to the bucket list.

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            @jon-nyc said in Plato's last hours:

            Having a Thracian slave girl play my the flute for me.

            Has a weird 1960s Star Trek feel to it, doesn't it?

            Or, Slave-Outfit Leia. Right?

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            • KlausK Offline
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              The whole Vesuvian scroll story is a completely insane human technology triumph. Makes me happy!

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                Despite battling a fever and being on the brink of death, Plato – who was known as a disciple of Socrates and a mentor to Aristotle, and who died in Athens around 348BC – retained enough lucidity to critique the musician for her lack of rhythm, the account suggests.

                Having spent some significant time with my mother of declining cognitive abilities, I might suggest Plato was complaining about nothing here.

                Education is extremely important.

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                  The whole Vesuvian scroll story is a completely insane human technology triumph. Makes me happy!

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                  @Klaus said in Plato's last hours:

                  The whole Vesuvian scroll story is a completely insane human technology triumph. Makes me happy!

                  And yet humanity has built an entire city at the base of the active volcano, again.

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