Credit goes to the Italian papyrologist Graziano Ranocchia, according to whom Plato was buried in the “Academy” that bears his name in Athens, in a garden near the “temple of the Muses”.
With moderation and composure, the president of the Association of Greek Archaeologists, Dr. Kostas Paschalidis, welcomed the news regarding the new information that places Plato’s tomb on the grounds of the Plato Academy in Athens.
Speaking to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, the renowned archaeologist did claim that there were already sources similar to those discovered in southern Italy, however he did not in any way diminish the success of his Italian colleagues, but insisted on the need to find resources to cover the research needs.
“That Plato’s tomb was in the Academy is not unknown to archaeologists. Diogenes Laertius, at the beginning of the 3rd century AD, mentions that Plato was buried in the Academy, where he lived most of his life”, asserts Dr. Paschalidis and overstates: “Pausanias says the same, that, i.e. , Plato was buried not far from the Academy. The important thing is that we have a technology with which people managed to read a text of a thousand words longer than previous people who read the text from the same papyrus with another technology. And that we may live to learn unknown texts from the library of Peison, the rich owner of the villa, which will be philosophical, because he was mainly interested in philosophy and especially epicureanism”.
Afterwards, Dr. Paschalidis gave the public the light of his knowledge about the famous papyrus which was examined with the latest technology and brought to the surface such specific information: “The papyrus allegedly says that Plato’s tomb is located near the mosque of the Muses in his Academy. Olympiodorus of Alexandria, in his commentary on Plato, is quoted as saying that, on arriving in Athens, Plato established a teaching school in the Academy and in part of it a mosque for the Muses. In fact, the entire Academy is considered a mosque of the Muses, the place of knowledge, as it were.”
Continuing, he pointed out the value of channeling resources for the continuation of archaeological research: “What we can say as SEA is that there is a need to protect and supervise every possible project in a zone declared, like the Plato Academy zone, that it needs staff and how it is of great importance to pay respect and preventive attention to such places”.
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