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Sep. 3rd, 2002 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearDear Newton,
... Stop stealing Sabretooth, and hiding him behind the litter box. This is the third time.
Sincerely,
Your loving mother.
Thing learned today-
In 388 BC, Plato went to the court of Dionysius, ruler of Syracuse, hoping to be taken on as philosopher-in-residence. From The Essential Plato by Paul Strathern:
I never knew that.
Until later, dear journal... off to work.
... Stop stealing Sabretooth, and hiding him behind the litter box. This is the third time.
Sincerely,
Your loving mother.
Thing learned today-
In 388 BC, Plato went to the court of Dionysius, ruler of Syracuse, hoping to be taken on as philosopher-in-residence. From The Essential Plato by Paul Strathern:
Dionysius was not the kind of man to let himself be cowed by some philosophic nob who was trying to cadge a job at his court. When he and Plato turned to discussing philosophy, the sparks soon began to fly. At one point Plato found himself forced to point out a flaw in Dionysius' thinking.
'You speak like a geriatric fool,' exclaimed Dionysius in disgust.
'And you speak like a tyrant,' replied Plato.
Whereupon Dionysius decided to live up to the philosopher's observations and had Plato clapped in irons. Plato was placed on a Spartan ship bound for Aegina, where the captain was instructed to sell Plato as a slave. 'Don't worry, he's so much of a philosopher he won't even notice,' remarked Dionysius... And it wasn't long before Plato was spotted in the slave market at Aegina by his well-heeled old friend Anniceris the Cyrenaic, who bought him for the bargain price of twenty mina. Anniceris was so pleased with his cut-price philosopher that he sent him back to Athens with enough money to set up a school.
I never knew that.
Until later, dear journal... off to work.
