Fitness

people don’t get it when i tell them i’m tryna be like plato

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Honestly I couldn’t put a personality to these names before cos I had little knowledge of their life 

Curious was it just compulsory for their academics or scholars?

The average Greek guy is not ripped

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This is ancient Greeks 
The text itself says that no modern man can match their physical feats :)

It was compulsory yes 

They weren’t just smart guys — Plato and Socrates were soldiers too 

Physical fitness, military readiness were core to Athenian idea of citizenship

WRT Socrates: prob elitism 

https://www.noiser.com/ancient-civilisations/the-fall-of-socrates-why-athens-condemned-its-greatest-thinker-to-death

What were his shortcomings (I believe you have some more links to share)

It was compulsory yes 

They weren’t just smart guys — Plato and Socrates were soldiers too 

Physical fitness, military readiness were core to Athenian idea of citizenship

https://platosacademy.org/socrates-as-sergeant-major/

Every young male at 18 would go through dokimasia (military selection). Those deemed unfit were left to work as clerks (grammateis) or lowly merchants. Generally their upward mobility in Athenian society would be severely hampered but it wasn’t a death sentence or anything

In modern days they’d just hang out on Farcaster