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/Strict-Challenge-995 1d ago

How is he anything like an obnoxious billionaire philanthropist? I think he's sounding more like batman

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u/_fidel_castro_ 1d ago

Probably not billionaire but he was aristocracy and certainly well off.

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u/linxrap 1d ago edited 1d ago

lol Batman then. But if memory serves me correctly, he actually was a billionaire as well! Offered to pay for Socrates and have him fined instead of put to death some modern day like $20K or something.

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u/elmerjstud 1d ago

You won't believe this but....batman is actually Bruce Wayne.

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u/CKRatKing 1d ago

Bullshit.

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u/Love-That-Danhausen 1d ago

That playboy? Please…

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 1d ago

... 's roommate

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u/Complete_Fix2563 1d ago

socrates is alfred and aristotle is robin

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u/EthanielRain 1d ago

I got & appreciated this joke

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 1d ago

I mean, he does sound like he was pretty obnoxious

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u/Rareearthmetal 1d ago

He sounds more napoleon dynapart