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Re:An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins by npongratz on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:43PM (#29132210)
I was also unaware of Plato's possible slavery, and found this [0], but I do not have the background knowledge judge the veracity of the information:

> One source of the story of Plato being sold into slavery is Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. An English translation is available online [1] on Project Perseus. You can find the full story in Book 3 that discusses the life of Plato.

[0] https://history.stackexchange.com/a/37499

[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

Re:An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins by imbnwa on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:00PM (#29132340)
These sources just highlight that he was, at best, under threat of being a slave though, not that he was actually sold and performed as a slave. He's ransomed for at the last minute by someone recognizing him at the market.

If Plato had actually been a slave, his lifelong commitment to anti-democratic political organization would've been a little different, though maybe not, considering even this experience didn't change his philosophy, to the point that's likely not worth mentioning as a significant experience, unlike Epictectus who was born into slavery.

Re:An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins by dr_dshiv on Saturday November 06, 2021 @04:08PM (#29133413)
Sorry being up for sale in a slave market isn’t enough—I think it is fascinating and important.