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describe the physical appearance of Socrates​

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Answered by sharada97
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Plato's Symposium provides the best details of Socrates' physical appearance. He was not the ideal of Athenian masculinity. Short and stocky, with a snub nose and bulging eyes, Socrates always seemed to appear to be staring.

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Answered by Anonymous
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According to the sources Socrates was an ugly man. At the beginning of the Theaetetus,  Plato also remarks that he had a snub nose and projecting eyes.

  • He is like the Silenus figures that sit in the shops of the statuaries, according to Alcibiades; those, that the craftsmen make with pipes or flutes in their hands: when their two halves are pulled open, they are found to contain images of gods. He further propose that he looks like Marsya's satyr.
  • Socrates earliest "portrait makes his appearance unpleasant. Like his pupils, he is pale and thin, dirty and hungry with long hair from strain and deprivation. He walks barefoot through the city, looking at people and carrying out his corrupting mental experiments.
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