• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    Oh I’m familiar with Diogenes. He also fucked dogs if you didn’t know.

    That exchange with Plato wasn’t something that really occured, by the way. It was a scene from a satire, pretty sure written by Aristophanes.

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      6 days ago

      Oh I’m familiar with Diogenes. He also fucked dogs if you didn’t know.

      that’s such a Diogenes thing to do 🤣

      in fairness, he did teach the dog to walk upright and shaved it completely bare to meet the definition of a man.

      of course it didn’t really happen. it wasn’t written down until 600 years later by Diogenes Laertius, and even by then the stories were more parables than historical events.