  After recalling some of the geometry of the sixth Painleve equation, we will
describe how the Okamoto symmetries arise naturally from symmetries of
Schlesinger's equations and summarise the classification of the Platonic
Painleve six solutions. A key observation is that Painleve VI governs the
isomonodromic deformations of certain Fuchsian systems on rank \emph{three}
bundles.
