🇬🇷 Greece
Oddlets from Greece.
The Man Who Laughed at Everything
He correctly described the structure of all matter in the universe. Plato tried to have his books burned. Plato won.
The Woman Who Started the War Early
She raised a revolutionary flag twelve days before the revolution was declared — on a warship that was, on paper, a trading ship.
The Man Who Plucked the Chicken
Plato defined a human being as a featherless biped, and someone showed up with a chicken.