The Oldest Excuse In The Book
There is no older excuse than “the dog ate my homework.” In Plato’s The School of Athens, some slacker philosophy majors offered such lame explanation. In fact, a stone tablet dated to the time of the Vesuvius explosion at AD73 was discovered in Pompeii, with the inscription “Canis meus Duis congue sem comedit.” But then fate dealt this educator a cruel hand when his dog devoured his students’ assignments. Did you know that a jury of 501 Athenians declared Socrates guilty and sentenced him to death by drinking hemlock because he said his dog ate his philosophy student’s homework? The legend lives on!