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Wider Wargaming => Painting & Modelling => Topic started by: FierceKitty on 20 October 2014, 12:36:42 PM

Title: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: FierceKitty on 20 October 2014, 12:36:42 PM
I've been working on some eggheads to accompany the BUA or baggage for Hellenistic armies; it's no secret that the Greek world liked to have a few chaps around to make one's head reel with crazy ideas about life, the universe, and everything.
Watch this space. In an hour or so, I shall post pictures of the figures, and invite people to recognise the originals. The clues are pretty heavy-handed.
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: FierceKitty on 20 October 2014, 01:36:52 PM
The first of these has been posted before.
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: FierceKitty on 20 October 2014, 01:37:39 PM
Ignore the slaves and the research assistant.
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: FierceKitty on 20 October 2014, 01:38:49 PM
OK, identify them. The winner will be allowed three posts calling for Mexicans.
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 20 October 2014, 04:16:15 PM
Archemedes
Pythagoras
Erathosthanes
Diogenes

Last two, no clue
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: FierceKitty on 20 October 2014, 04:19:01 PM
Clues: You can't cross the same river twice.
          The greatest good in life is pleasure (ataraxia, to be exact).
          And Thales was said to have fallen in de water while looking at the stars and walking.

(You've got the other three right. Was it the triangle or the beanfield that identified Pythagoras?)
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: nikharwood on 21 October 2014, 08:48:53 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 October 2014, 04:19:01 PM
Clues: You can't cross the same river twice.
           

Heraclates  :)
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: FierceKitty on 21 October 2014, 09:16:28 AM
Yep. And the other is Epicurus.
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 21 October 2014, 04:53:32 PM
It was the triangle, but the barrel needs Alexander the Great blocking his sunshine!
Title: Re: Do you know your philosophers, Bruce?
Post by: FierceKitty on 21 October 2014, 05:13:29 PM
I'm cheating a bit - it's baggage for a Seleucid army. Must be a Cynical groupie.