The Plato Code

In June 2010 American mathematics, science and philosophy historian and Plato scholar, Jay Kennedy, based at Manchester University, published a paper in a serious academic peer-reviewed journal that announced a seismic departure from the way we have viewed Plato for the last 500 years. The paper was so revisionary that it was picked up by the national newspapers such as the Telegraph and the Guardian, and was also reported in the US press. In the paper, the author reveals that Plato had hidden in his The Republic and other works a musical code, based on his studies of the Pythagorean theory of the time. Pythagorean theory was highly revolutionary in that it dispensed with the gods and instead suggested that the universe and nature could be understood through mathematics... a debate which still rages today. Philosophers had lost their lives or been exiled for holding such beliefs, and so Plato was forced to encode it within his manuscripts. The author was able to spot the code by laying the manuscripts out in the form in which they were originally written in the Greek, something which hadn't been done since the times of the Greeks themselves.
Drawn from extensive research, The Plato Code is a controversial, exciting and triumphantly accurate story of Plato's life - a life which included banishment, war, tyranny, slavery and sex.