/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12850204]

Does it ever blow your mind to think that Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, ect were all actual guys, like you could have seen Plato eating bread or something. This seriously fucks me up to think about.

[Anonymous No.12850206]

>>12850204
you have to be 18+ to post here

[Anonymous No.12850208]

>>12850206
you can be an adult without being a miserable faggot like you

[Anonymous No.12850211]

>>12850204
They were all disgusting faggots. Think about it, fat fuck Socrates licking hairy sweat balls under the hot Grecian sun. Twink Aristotle being pounded by his balding middle aged master Plato.

[Anonymous No.12850222]

And they were all like fucking hobbit sized. Just imagine the gnarliest smelling midget, pederast maximus himself and he looks like bilbo baggins from the old hobbit cartoons

[Anonymous No.12850226]

>>12850208
t. underage

[Anonymous No.12850230]

>>12850204
This is the type of poster who makes fun of Zizek for sniffing all the time

[Anonymous No.12850231]

>>12850211
that last part sounds pretty hot though. Weren't there public baths they could wash themselves in?

[Anonymous No.12850239]

>>12850230
wrong
>>12850222
and they totally transformed the way we think about everything in between fucking kids

[Anonymous No.12850241]

>>12850204
please just go back

[Anonymous No.12850245]

>>12850239
please go back to *eddit, no one wants you here

[Anonymous No.12850257]

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

[Anonymous No.12850266]

>>12850241
>>12850245
why are eurocucks so miserable?

[Anonymous No.12850397]

>>12850204
No, it's not surprising that pseuds like that would have been alive just like all the pseuds today

[Anonymous No.12850491]

>>12850211

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

[Anonymous No.12850568]

>>12850211
>fat
>greeks

[Anonymous No.12850614]

>>12850222
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.

[Anonymous No.12851652]

>>12850204
There was another actual guy.

[Anonymous No.12851702]

>>12850204
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.

[Anonymous No.12851716]

>>12851702
Imagine having a pic of Diogenes masturbating in front of Plato
That shit would be worth millions

[Anonymous No.12851734]

>>12851716
It would be the cover of almost every dialogue, for publishing companies from Routledge to Cambridge.

[Anonymous No.12851781]

>>12850204
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

[Anonymous No.12851901]

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.

[Anonymous No.12851904]

>>12850204
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.

[Anonymous No.12851923]

>>12850204
Does anyone know how Plato was seen in his own time? Was he already considered a genius even then? What about Aristotle?

[Anonymous No.12851979]

>>12851923
Aristotle was Alexander the Great's tutor so he probably had some clout

[Anonymous No.12851997]

>>12851702
ayy ive been there it was boring

[Anonymous No.12852162]

>>12851904
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

[Anonymous No.12852215]

>>12852162
Socrates had a family smdh did nobody here read Apology?

[Anonymous No.12852512]

>>12850204
If I could do anything at all I would definitely go back in time to watch Socrates eat bread.

[Anonymous No.12852527]

>>12851702
What famous people? And why would they care?

[Anonymous No.12852560]

>>12851781
I thought they were all broadly paraphrased

[Anonymous No.12853093]

>>12850491
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.

[Anonymous No.12853237]

>>12851979
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.

[Anonymous No.12853331]

>>12852215
>/lit/
>reading
your first day here, eh?