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.
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Ummmm, Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, and Donatello...?
I'll bring the pizza.
The pizza will be delivered by Hideki Tojo dressed as a rat. He can stay, just for the lols.
Tubular!
Plato, Socrates, Einstein, and Crawley.
I like the way you're thinking, but IMO Socrates would be an absolute nightnare. Maybe swap in Euclid?
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"
Good thing you specified four, because if I invite one more, I'd have a problem.
TIL!
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)
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.
Tell me about it! Charlemagne, Zhuge Liang, and Julius Ceasar were on ny shortlist.
Mother Jones, MLK, Emma Goldman, and Eugene Debs
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.
And why are they all dudes.
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.
My four grandparents, the last of which died 25 years ago.
But, hey, sure, resurrect Genghis Kahn, what could possibly go wrong...? ;-)
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?
Well, two of them fought in WWII, one on the eastern front, the other one in France. Sooo... ;-)
One Brit/American and one Russian, or both German?
German. So at least the "crushing your enemies" part thankfully didn't work out in the long run.
Caesar, Napoleon, Garibaldi, and Ataturk.
I would love to hear these four discuss ambition, compromise, risk-taking, and philosophies of governance.
Apollonius of Perga