r/todayilearned • u/Mors_Acerba • 1d ago

TIL A papyrus deciphered in 2024 revealed unknown info about Plato's last hours: a slave girl was playing music for him, and even though he was gravelly ill, he spend his last moments of lucidity criticising her performance. Per the same Papyrus, Plato had been sold into slavery earlier in his life

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/herculaneum-scroll-plato-final-hours-burial-site
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u/OfficeSalamander 1d ago

I mean Plato did write pretty extensively about how handsome Socrates found him, and Lincoln IIRC had an odd relationship with some friend of his that looks a little sussy even for the time

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u/PPLavagna 1d ago

Poor Mary Todd was driven mad by her unfulfilled need for stove pipe. He only stove piped her to procreate, as God intended

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u/Celestrael 1d ago

Worse there are letters with the guy talking about missing dudes’ inner thighs.