MONASTIRAKI FLEA MARKET
In 335 BCE, Aristotle founded a Peripatetic School where students and professors discussed the principles of mathematics, science and philosophy. For centuries, the school remained buried under layers of the city until 1996 when excavation began. Today, the ruins are incorporated into a park where visitors still roam the grounds and ruins, discussing contemporary ideas and politics.
Near one of the ruins, you approach an agent who is there selling marble busts of Greece’s famous gods, intellectuals and athletes. When you introduce yourself and why you are here, he shows you a collection of five sculptures and gives you name plates that seem to have been removed.
Curiously, each of the sculptures has numbers spray painted on them, from the looks if it, where the name plates used to hang. There’s a lot going on here and you have to take a step back to survey it all. The agent smirks and taunts you by saying, “Good luck.” Just as you are about to give up, you notice a piece of paper tucked between two of the sculptures. It says:
- Socrates is on one of the ends.
- Plato is three figures away from Socrates.
- Thales is next to Plato.
- Pythagoras is two figures away from Socrates.
- Aristotle is not second.
Perhaps these clues will help you identify the men portrayed in the sculptures. But you’ll need to think deeper about the numbers spray painted on them.
