An Italian archaeologist said recently he has found the exact location of Plato’s grave in the Platonic Academy in Athens after deciphering the Herculaneum papyri.I'm pretty sure there's nothing new in this article, but I note it just in case. I think that Professor Ranocchia was just saying that the recently recovered biography of Plato by the first-century BCE philosopher Philodemus gives a somewhat more precise tradition of where Plato's grave was at the Academy. We already knew that.[...]
But the article heavily implies, without quite saying it, that Ranocchia has located the exact physical location of this grave in the ruins of the Academy. I doubt that. If so, I want photos and a geolocation. A fourth-century BCE Greek inscription saying "R.I.P. Plato" would be nice too, but I don't want to be greedy.
My discussion of the new Plato biography and its implications is here. Related posts are here and here.
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