Plato's last hours

[George K]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site

[taiwan_girl]

fascinating.

[89th]

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

[jon-nyc]

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

Added to the bucket list.

[George K]

@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?

[Klaus]

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

[Horace]

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.

[89th]

@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.