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The Guardian: Newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius may have shed light on the final hours of Plato.![]()
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In a groundbreaking discovery, the ancient scroll was found to contain a previously unknown narrative detailing how the Greek philosopher spent his last evening.
Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash
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Newly deciphered passages outline Greek philosopher’s burial place and describe critique of slave musician
📚📚Οn the occasion of the publication of her new poetry collection "animals-plants" (Kedros, 2023), Reading Greece spoke to Dimitra Kationi about poetry as yet another struggle between understanding and defining the world and literature as a means of approaching the essence of the human state.![]()
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Εκδόσεις Κέδρος - Kedros Publishers
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Dimitra Kationi was born in Kavala in 1983. She studied law and music. Since 2001 she lives in Thessaloniki. Your latest writing venture ζώα-φυτά [animals-plants] was recently published by Κed...
🌱 The "purple rivers" of Molyvos have once again spread over the cobbled streets of the picturesque village of Lesvos.![]()
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🪻The flower with the impressive bunches of purple flowers called “salkimia,” is a trademark of Molyvos and blooms around Easter. In Lesvos they call “salkimi” this plant – that belongs in the family of wisteria, while in in the rest of Greece it is known as “glisina” or “glitsina” ![]()
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On the island of Lesvos, the name “salkimi” - from the Turkish word that means bunch - prevailed, as the flower was planted in villages the where Greek refugees from Asia Minor settled, always as a memory from the homeland but also to provide much needed shade for yards and public spaces.![]()
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📸 APE-MPA / ILIAS MARKOU