All right I'm here with Catherine Missouri Walker Jenkins and my child my only child and my beloved daughter

Catherine welcome to the Jefferson hour.

Thank you I'm so happy to be here. We had a great discussion. We haven't really had a chance to talk about it since we got home three weeks

ago you and I spent 10 days in Greece at the end of your four years studying classics

at Columbia University it was the perfect trip it was the perfect trip. We rented a car, we saw

Homeric sites, we saw the Mask of Agamemnon in the archaeological museum in

Athens. We ate beautiful and simple food and we luxuriated on the island of Santarini.

We consulted the Oracle at Delphi.

What more can one do?

We did it all.

Now we just have to go back to Northern Greece.

We have been to Rome. We went for spring break

I think in your junior year software year and we have now been to Greece but we

haven't been to North Greece and while we were there remember there was

a news story they have discovered they think the tomb of Aristotle.

If it's true it's amazing.

Up in Thessalonica, Northern Greece, Aristotle was the contemporary Plato's, the famous

painting by Raphael, the Plato pointing to the heavens and Aristotle grounding philosophy in the real world,

and he was the tutor of Alexander the Great.

Maybe the greatest and most influential of all philosophers are much more important

through the Middle Ages than Plato ever was and now they think they have

found his tomb in northern Greece we we almost went but it would have

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