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News: July/August 2003

Plato Found in California • Cloned Racehorses Gallop Nearer • “Daddy Was a Website” • Aborted Fetuses to be Mothers — News reports by Sue Roberts in London and Lisa Sangoi in New York

‘Face of Plato’ Uncovered

A marble bust of Plato and its pedestal (known together as a herm) is being viewed in a new light after centuries of obscurity. Previously dismissed as a modern fake, it is now believed to date back to 125AD and to be a replica of a Greek original from around 360BC, made during Plato’s lifetime. It is said to provide our first glimpse of Plato as he really looked, before he became represented in the traditional ‘philosopher mould’. The instigator of this revelation is Stephen G. Miller, a classics professor and archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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