Episode 177: Strings
Lore
Aaron Mahnke
4.6 • 46.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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One of the things that has united humans across cultures and languages is music. For as long as we can remember, we have filled our lives with new musical backdrops. And at the center of that world are the people who write and perform it all—as well as the stories about where their powerful gifts come from.
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| 0:00.0 | It had been hiding in plain sight for centuries. |
| 0:17.1 | Looking over the oldest documents we have today, it's easy to get lost in their beautiful |
| 0:21.4 | simplicity and straightforward purpose. |
| 0:24.3 | The works of Plato, the Greek philosopher from the 4th century BC, have been pivotal |
| 0:30.1 | for over 2400 years. |
| 0:32.8 | And it's no wonder, really. |
| 0:34.7 | Plato's teacher was a guy named Socrates, and he himself became a teacher later on to |
| 0:39.1 | a man named Aristotle. |
| 0:41.0 | Legends, all of them. |
| 0:42.9 | But while we have scraps of writing from the other two men, Plato's complete works seem |
| 0:47.4 | to have done the unthinkable by surviving all the way to the present. |
| 0:52.5 | Which is why it's strange that after all this time, it was only about 10 years ago |
| 0:57.2 | that something new was discovered within them. |
| 1:00.2 | Looking over the oldest manuscripts we have, medieval documents carefully copied out by |
| 1:04.8 | scribes working with ink and vellum, researchers have found a pattern, a code, hidden in the |
| 1:11.7 | text. |
| 1:13.6 | To understand it, you need to know that ancient Greek music used a scale of 12 notes, |
| 1:18.8 | as opposed to our modern scale of 8, and what researchers have discovered is that Plato's |
| 1:24.0 | text is practically littered with patterns of 12. |
| 1:27.8 | In fact, perhaps to drive the point home, every twelfth line contains a reference to music. |
| 1:33.9 | It seems that Plato had something to hide. |
| 1:37.8 | Why? |
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