Does it ever blow your mind to think that Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, ect were all actual guys...

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My dream is to have met and be told to go fuck myself by Heraclitus.

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why are eurocucks so miserable?

No, it's not surprising that pseuds like that would have been alive just like all the pseuds today

What's your proof that Plato and Socrates were faggots?

>fat
>greeks

I mean yea they were short but not "THAT" short, only 5,3 as the Male average. Although that was an admittedly small sample of testings.

There was another actual guy.

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Ignore the haters, OP. I think about this often, and feel exactly as you do. To know that Shakespeare was not merely a painting, a fairy-tale figure who from his otherworldly dwelling happened to write stories of his own, but a real flesh-and-blood person like you or me, who was born in the house attached, is something I still cannot fathom.

I blame photography being invented so late - when all we've ever seen of these ancient figures are statues and illustrations, it's natural for them to seem more like literary characters themselves than people like us. A single picture of Plato would shatter this conception completely. And I have personally spent a lot of time visualizing what exactly Plato and Aristotle and Shakespeare would've looked like as real people, such as imagining a photograph of Plato's Academy, with all the students standing next to eachother, and Plato in front of them, and Aristotle somewhere beside him, all facing the camera. It's indeed trippy, to realize these people were identical to ourselves. At least the future won't have such problems, they'll see every famous figure through photographs and videographs in a way that most people of history have not had the luxury thus far.

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Imagine having a pic of Diogenes masturbating in front of Plato
That shit would be worth millions

It would be the cover of almost every dialogue, for publishing companies from Routledge to Cambridge.

What’s crazy to think about is that the words of Plato actually corresponded to what an actual person said. That any one man can speak and think like Socrates did, and his words are recorded, it gives me chills

I wonder if their parents were disappointed with them at the time, I have no real idea about their lives but I'm guessing they weren't particularly revered.

Socrates was notoriously ugly. I like to imagine one of those fat greasy neckbeard nerd guys as what his aura must have been like. He would be an incel if he lived in modern times. At least he would have been a youtube skeptic.

Does anyone know how Plato was seen in his own time? Was he already considered a genius even then? What about Aristotle?

Aristotle was Alexander the Great's tutor so he probably had some clout

ayy ive been there it was boring

Wasn't Socrates married though? There's the quote:
>"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates

Socrates had a family smdh did nobody here read Apology?

If I could do anything at all I would definitely go back in time to watch Socrates eat bread.

What famous people? And why would they care?

I thought they were all broadly paraphrased

Socrates was pretty gay, dude.
He gets all hot and sweaty for that little kid when he is pretending that he has a headache cure.

Great point. We can presume that Plato must have too, since he was the one who helped Aristotle reach his position in the first place. I've read that Plato accompanied kings on some occasions. Yet apparently Plato was sold into slavery at one point, too. Very strange.

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