“Socrates’s Publicist” is funny because modernizes the lives of people who lived in Ancient Greece. Discussing things like paying rent, being a waiter, and being a tour guide. Life in Ancient Greece was much different obviously as people did not have set jobs and land lords or formal housing did not exist. Socrates whole rise to stardom is very comparable to one of a modern celebrity. Some of the actions include, “creating a Socrates ‘brand,’” that he should drop his last name because, “Socrates Pappandreopoulos is too chunky for people”, and booking him at parties and weddings. It is mocking how people become famous today. Creating irony because it seems ridiculous that someone as intellectual as Socrates would get famous this way but the
