/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8390006]

Which authors do you think led the best life /lit/?

Pic related, xenophon led a very "balanced" life, being a respected author and historian, as well as a soldier and having an allegedly qt wife. He didn't neglect an area of human experience to be an author like, e.g. the moustache man.

[Anonymous No.8391276]

>was a mercenary -- risked his life for the descendant of the same crown who tried to invade his ancestral homeland, who no one on the expedition force (including him) didn't really have any personal or ideological connection to, and basically felt nothing when he got assassinated before they reached to assist him; all just for money.
>got exiled from Athens for fighting for Sparta

Doesn't seem that great. Plato had it better:
>was said to be a professional wrestler of his time, competed in the Isthmian Games.
>was said to be very proficient and expert of math and geometry (of his time) and very influential among contemporary and later mathematician with his logic and math themes in his philosophy; Euclid attended his academy and later classical mathematicians and classical math historians credit him for changing the course for future mathematicians.
>belong to a very wealthy family, but didn't get involved in politics or used his wealth to gain control over his fellow citizens (even though he probably hated them).
>people all over Greece went to his academy to get educated by him and his staff; was said to not have charged tuition.
>near-later comedians, even when making fun of him, portray him as humble, calm, and open-minded.