/lit/ - Literature

Is Khomeini the closest we've ever had to a philosopher king?

>made a constitution for his country based on Plato's Republic
>composed ecstatic mystic poetry
>reorganized society along high moral principles
>suppressed free speech
>supported the rights of religious minorities, including Jews

Nader Naderpour talked to him for four hours in poetry. Every line of Persian/Arabic poetry Naderpour quoted, Khomeini could recite the following line.

Name me one (1) living Western classicist who could do the same in our body of Greek and Latin poetry.