A carbonized scroll from ash-covered Herculaneum, believed to have belonged to Julius Caesar's father-in-law, was recently read using advanced imaging diagnostic techniques, and revealed details about Plato's final hours:
@sharponlooker
That's quite an accurate summation of the story.
But I think he'd be justified to complain if the beat of the song was too fast. Who wants to hurry on his way to Hades? 😬
In Republic book 10, Plato examines how poetry, or as we'd call it today, media more generally, affects the different parts of the human soul. Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode looking at that discussion!
Ariel is #3 of ESA's dedicated #exoplanet missions (following #Cheops, a mission to characterize exoplanets around nearby bright stars, and #Plato, the terrestrial exoplanet hunter) and will focus on studying the atmospheres of the planets:
This week, we hosted at @LAM_Marseille (#CNRS / #AMU / @cnes) an #hybrid workshop to organise and plan the future ground-based follow-up observations of #ESA's upcoming #PLATO mission.
The follow-up observations will aim at characterising the mass of transiting #exoplanets discovered by this #space mission, down to #Earth analogs. This will mainly be done with state-of-the-art #instruments and #telescopes at #ESO, in #Chile.
@IAmDannyBoling I'm not sure that means what you think it means. Plato's Greece was not a democracy of all adults but of elite men. Not for nothing did Diogenes wander around the marketplace with a lantern "looking for a human being".