Plato's final hours 'revealed': Ancient scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius claims the Greek philosopher spent his last night listening to music - and blasting the slave-girl flautist's 'lack of rhythm'
Plato, who died at the age of 80 or 81 in around 348BC, also welcomed a guest in his last hours. The passages have been illegible since their discovery in Herculaneum in 1750.