HELLENISTIC THIRST TRAPPERS ๐ช ๐ โค๏ธโ๐ฅ The impression exists t..
Added 2024-02-08 07:06:01 +0000 UTCHELLENISTIC THIRST TRAPPERS ๐ช ๐ โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
The impression exists that the great Greek philosophers were a bunch of balding, tubby old men sitting around bullshitting while sipping wine ๐ท, when nothing could be further from the truthโ โผ๏ธ
Socrates was famously short and ugly, but he was also a fucking muscle-bound war hero who charged headlong into the enemy during the Peloponnesian War to rescue captured officers. ๐๐๏ธ Plato wrestled competitively, his coach giving him the name Plato which literally means โbroad shoulderedโ. ๐คผโโ๏ธ ๐ Some historians also think Aristotle may have been a keen pentathlete in his youth given his passion and admiration of the sport. ๐๐
The ancient Greeks were the first to see the potential of the Gods in their own flesh, ๐ซ where everyone could be a hero, where fate was not bound by the past. They truly were the first superheroes ๐ฆธand drew amazement and fear from the rest of antiquity. ๐ฒ๐ฑ History will always remember the 300 Spartans legends, led by the immortal King Leonidis ๐, and reinforced by only a few thousand-armed workers, who held back a Persian army of between 200,000-300,000 troops led by the hugely powerful Xerxes the Great, King of Kings. โ๏ธ It is no exaggeration to say we owe the existence of our free world to these superheroes ๐, who fell in the end from betrayal, but giving the rest of Greece precious time to prepare and fight Xerxes on both land and sea to defeat a near invincible foe. ๐ ๐คฉ ๐
Of all the amazing wisdom Socrates has to bestow, take away what I believe to be one of his most important quotes, โ ๏ธ
โโฆit is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.โ ๐ช ๐
