Based on their bios would you rather meet Socrates or Plato?

After reading the biographies and introductions I feel that I personally would rather meet Socrates. After reading Socrates’ bio I find much of what he went through to be much more interesting than that of what Plato went through. Socrates served in a hoplite, which is a very heavily armored infantryman, during the Peloponnesian War with Sparta for the Athenian army. Even though he most likely was not rich he still lived a very frugal lifestyle mentioning that he didn’t really bathe and was always barefoot. He also seems to be a very outspoken man for his beliefs, which I find very noble. In his bio, it says that he was the lone vote against an illegal motion which would have tried a group of generals who didn’t pick up dead bodies after a battle at sea.

Socrates’ charisma is what drove people to want to listen to him and I feel like I would really just want to sit down and hear what he has to say. Even Plato was someone who really enjoyed listening to what Socrates had to say as much of his writing takes after much of what Socrates spoke about throughout his life. Plato even represents a Socratic philosophy according to his biography and much of his writing questions people about the conventionally recognized ethical virtues. Socrates main point that he spoke about extensively throughout his life was about virtues. I feel like because of this I’d rather sit down and listen to what Socrates had to say not only because he had an interesting life, but because he really stood up for what he believed in until the day he died.