Echetleos: The Mysterious Warrior

According to historical records a mysterious warrior appeared on the battlefield of Marathon (490BC) on the side of Greeks fighting against the Persians. The name given to this mystery man is Echetleos.
 Pausanias in his book “Attika” describes the whole incident.
” They say that a man happened to be present looking like a farmer. Killing many of the foreigners (Persians) with his plow handle (a plow handle looks like a modern day gun as shown in the image below), he disappeared after the battle. When the Athenians asked the oracle, the god just gave the order to honour Echetleos as a hero. They constructed a monument made of white marble. Although the Athenians testify that they buried the Persian as the divine laws in any case commands that the dead body has to be buried, I was not able to locate a tomb.”

Echetleos: The MysteriousHigh-Tech Warrior of the Battle of Marathon

The legent of Daidalus

Daedalus is a figure from Greek mythology famous for his clever inventions and as the architect of the Minotaur’s labyrinth on Crete. He is also the father of Icarus who flew too close to the sun on his artificial wings and so drowned in the Mediterranean. By the Roman period, Daedalus had acquired a long string of accomplishments and he came to represent, in general, the supreme master craftsman. The myths of Daedalus appear in the works of such noted writers as Homer, Herodotus, Ovid, and Virgil.

Daedalus and Icarus

Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle

But such a life would be too high for man; for it is not in so far as he is man that he will live so, but in so far as something divine is present in him; and by so much as this is superior to our composite nature is its activity superior to that which is the exercise of the other kind of virtue. If reason is divine, then, in comparison with man, the life according to it is divine in comparison with human life. But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything. This would seem, too, to be each man himself,since it is the authoritative and better part of him. It would be strange, then, if he were to choose not the life of his self but that of something else. And what we said before' will apply now; that which is proper to each thing is by nature best and most pleasant for each thing; for man, therefore, the life according to reason is best and pleasantest, since reason more than anything else is man. This life therefore is also the happiest. 

Book X

Plato-Phaedo Socrates True earth

The true earth, viewed from above, is a sight to behold. It is marked by bright colors, some different from any colors we know. The plants are also pure and beautiful, and the mountains are smooth and made entirely out of rubies, emeralds, and other precious stones, as well as stones more precious than any of which we know.

Socrates, the earth from above