“Archimedes? Amateur. Socrates? All talk.”
Y’know, I know they made this long before a Hercules cartoon was ever in production but I want you to think about that. Hercules is not in school yet when this cartoon takes place because that crossover doesn’t even happen until AFTER Aladdin and Jasmine are married. Presumably Hercules doesn’t even know he’s a god yet.
Why am I bringing this up? Because these people are being spoken about like they were all walking around at the same time, or their time has passed.
The mind boggles. Now Socrates I can let slide because he references Plato later, who was a student of Socrates so presumably Socrates is already dead at this point having been executed for having unpopular opinions.
And given that Mechanicles is an obvious expatriate, I wonder what his opinions of the man are in spite of his bragging. Socrates chose to die rather than accept exile or something worse because he was a patriot to the greatest extreme. He risked his life and went to war for his country and he accepted their death sentence as he believed a loyal Greek should, even though he made clear that he did not agree with the sentence.
Mechanicles’ pride for his Greek routes which comes up more than once in the series is wholly secondary to his plans for world domination. His inventions are not for the glory of his city state. They’re for himself.
Basically what I’m saying is that a crossover with Hercules that featured him and maybe explained why he left Greece in the first place would have been really interesting.
The DVD Fairy 