I'd like to be a fly on the wall when Hannibal Barca, Alexander the Great, Genghis Kahn, and Bai Qi discussed war and empire building.
Which 4 historical figures would you want to have dinner with?
I'd like to be a fly on the wall when Hannibal Barca, Alexander the Great, Genghis Kahn, and Bai Qi discussed war and empire building.
23 Comments
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 96d
Ummmm, Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Donatello...?
I'll bring the pizza.
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 96d
The pizza will be delivered by Hideki Tojo dressed as a rat. He can stay, just for the lols.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 96d
Tubular!
Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io · 7 pts · 96d
Good thing you specified four, because if I invite one more, I'd have a problem.
hakase@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 96d
TIL!
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 96d
Plato, Socrates, Einstein, and Crawley.
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 96d
I like the way you're thinking, but IMO Socrates would be an absolute nightnare. Maybe swap in Euclid?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 96d
nah, go full bore and choose Diogenes
EDIT : Great, now I want the trolliest combinations. Surely a pair would be Newton, Diogenes, but who would compliment these two to exasperate the shitstorm further?
EDIT 2 : I guess one would be "choose a sex positive feminist"
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 96d
hakase@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 96d
Gṛtsamāda (author, or family of authors, of the oldest book in the Rg Veda)
King Minos (or any real Minoan); Vercingetorix (or Celtillus) otherwise
Enmebaragesi (first confirmed historical Sumerian king)
Hattusili I (first historical King of the Hittites)
(5.) Queen Himiko, King Tang of Shang, or King Menes (early or first confirmed historical rulers of Japan, China, and Egypt)
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 96d
Babbage/Lovelace, Turing, Al Kwarzemi, Dennis Richie.
Damn, only four makes the setup difficult. I also had Grace Hopper and Konrad Zuse on the shortlist. Just the WW2 contributors would be another combo that would be amazing.
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 96d
Tell me about it! Charlemagne, Zhuge Liang, and Julius Ceasar were on ny shortlist.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 96d
Emma Goldman, Karl Marx, Kondiaronk, and Frida Kahlo.
Emma ist a pragmatic anarchist, Karl has the theory, Kondiaronk is funny and used to pick apart Europeans’ bullshit, and Frida has the artistic angle in addition to knowing politics.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 96d
Mother Jones, MLK, Emma Goldman, and Eugene Debs
jlow@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 96d
And why are they all dudes.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 96d
Thousands of years of patriarchy means there are more dudes, both in-power and remembered, who are major figures. The selection pool, unfortunately, is not equal by the biases of historical societies and the records they left behind.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 96d
My four grandparents, the last of which died 25 years ago.
But, hey, sure, resurrect Genghis Kahn, what could possibly go wrong...? ;-)
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 96d
Yeah, but what could your grandparents have taught me about how to crush my enemies, so I can see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women?
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 96d
Well, two of them fought in WWII, one on the eastern front, the other one in France. Sooo... ;-)
rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 96d
One Brit/American and one Russian, or both German?
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 96d
German. So at least the "crushing your enemies" part thankfully didn't work out in the long run.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 1 pts · 96d
Caesar, Napoleon, Garibaldi, and Ataturk.
I would love to hear these four discuss ambition, compromise, risk-taking, and philosophies of governance.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 96d
Apollonius of Perga