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Historian J. Kennedy from Manchester University argues that the ancient Greek philosopher Plato included in his book "State" musical-mathematical code, which is encrypted using your ideas, too dangerous to express them openly.

Kennedy for five years studying Plato's texts and discovered a hidden code in one of his most famous works - the dialogue

«State». "In ancient times, many of the followers of the philosopher said that they contain hidden meanings and secret codes, but modern scientists have rejected it," - he says

. "It's a long and exciting story, but basically I cracked the code. I clearly proved that the book (Plato) contain codes and symbols that make explicit the hidden philosophy of Plato. This is a real discovery, not simply reinterpretation, "- emphasizes Kennedy

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According to him, Plato could "inherit" from cryptography lived a century earlier disciples of Pythagoras, who taught that all the planets and stars emit inaudible sounds that form the "music of the spheres." This music and the "hidden" by Plato in his book, Kennedy assured.

Philosopher placed combinations of words related to music after every 12th part of the text "of the State." This is a regular chain of 12 notes of the Greek musical fret. Some of these notes form a harmony, some discord. The places in the text where the "harmonious" notes, it is about love and laughter, while the dissonant notes were accompanied by references to war and death. This code, in Kennedy's opinion, is the key to the symbolic system of Plato.

"When we read his books, our emotions are moving up and down the MIDI note number. Plato used his readers like musical instruments, "- said Kennedy

. He notes that Plato created the secret code is not for fun, but for his own safety, his ideas were a serious threat to the Greek pagan religion. Philosopher said that mathematical laws and not the gods controlled the universe. Plato's teacher Socrates was executed for such heresy.

Kennedy calls "State" time capsule sent us to a great philosopher, and I am sure that this is just the beginning of great discoveries: there is still more than two thousand "unsolved" Plato's works pages

. However, the classical scholar not ready to share the enthusiasm of the cryptographic British scientist.

Head of the Department of Classical Philology Russian State Humanitarian University, Professor Nikolai Grintser told the news agency that "any sufficiently long text can be found in almost any pattern, and the" State "- a very large text. However, this does not mean that this pattern has been created deliberately by the author. »

Grintser noted that many of the things that he wrote Kennedy, has long been recognized by scientists, in particular, it concerns the influence of Pythagorean ideas about music and math. However, among the true assertions are embedded and obvious mistakes - in particular, Plato could not be the "first feminist", as well as the defense of homosexuality, whom he calls the British, as in antiquity it was the norm

. However, the main idea of ​​Kennedy makes Grintser serious doubts. He recalled that in the ancient texts really meet some of the "encryption" such as anagrams, in the later poetry writers can encrypt your name the letters of words, "but it is rather a poetic art, poetic game." This ancient culture were not peculiar to the idea of ​​a comprehensive and well "hidden" in the text of the secret code.

Russian colleague surprised by how much the odds that Kennedy said in an interview, and what he writes in the article. If the article does not contain any claims on something radically new, the press stated about something stunningly new. "You can talk about some unfair advertising their studies," - said the agency

. In the article itself, Grintser notes, there is no accurate numerical calculations.

"There is a common argument that different themes fall in different parts of the dialogues. As these parts are divided, it is not clear. Nothing but the alternation of harmony and disharmony - a fairly conventional ideas of Greek philosophy - the "code" does not contain. No new reading of the text is not offered ", - says the philologist

. According to him, in the teachings of Plato quite frankly it stated that written speech is imperfect in contrast to oral. Therefore hardly philosopher hid him for something important in the written text.

At the same time the works of Plato have reached us in medieval manuscripts, as they originally existed in the papyrus scrolls. Over the millennia, the language changed, spelling, pronunciation, so the division of the text could be very different from how its divided Kennedy.

"Some laws in this Platonic text, you can try to find the degree of scientific credibility may be different, but serve it as a revelation, as the key to the reading of the text, in my opinion, absolutely wrong," -zaklyuchil scientist.