I'm pretty sure I have more people who follow me on here than who knew who Socrates was when he was alive, after reviewing the actual enfranchised population of Classical Athens
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I mean the slaves and women probably still knew who he was
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It is funny though There's a story that at a performance of Aristophanes' The Clouds a bunch of out-of-towers had come up see none of them got any of the constant jokes about Socrates
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It's just bewildering how much of Western culture has been shaped by one relatively tiny span of time in one poleis - one which has managed to shape everyone's conceptions of Hellenic culture to a grossly disproportionate degree & enshrine their flash-in-the-pan as the ideal.
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Think about the fact that the American "Wild West" in its classic, mythologized form, in reality lasted for about 30 years.
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"The '60s" as people remember them really only lasted from like 1967 (the "Summer of Love") to Nixon's reelection in 1972
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