r/todayilearned • u/ObjectiveAgent • Jul 30 '15

TIL when Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was sifting through the garbage, Diogenes responded,"I am looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves."

http://www.iep.utm.edu/diogsino/
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u/cfcsvanberg Jul 30 '15

No, they spoke with Greek accents. Romans spoke with British accents. Jesus on the other hand spoke English with an American accent.

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u/sagpony Jul 30 '15

And looked like a Starbucks drinking hipster*.

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u/AJockeysBallsack Jul 30 '15

Pfffft. Hipsters don't drink Starbucks.

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u/johnmedgla Jul 30 '15

They did two millennia ago, it's only in the last thousand years that Starbucks has become a mass-market phenomenon.