The world's first redditor. I bet everyone hated him at the time.
This a true story!
>>25229724First redditor was no doubt Euclid.
>>25229724He was just like an ancient Munchausen (the novel is actually influenced by Lucian's True Story). Both are mostly lost in modern translation though what they are doing is taking apart tall tales common in their own times (Russian/ Ottoman war stories in 1700s vs travelogues on Blemmyes and other mythical things in antiquity)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uV_dAFONoA
>>25229880how about proclus who fucking loved science so much he wrote tedious pseudomath about why souls are immortal before justinian b& classical reddit
>>25229724Diogenes was centuries before him and is the first redditor>gross anti civilizational loser trolling everyone while being a decrepit barrel hobo>called out for fapping in public>too pathetic to feed himself but has opinions how others should live their livesBro was reddit af
>start with the reddit
>>25229724Just the idea alone of an athenian reddit is enough to vindicate socrates
>>25231656Nah, I think Lucian was on a different level of irony poisoning, plus he had that reddit-like passive aggressiveness.
>>25229724it's interesting how the engraver got the effect of streaked marble in that pic
