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Why doesn’t Tumblr talk more about Alcibiades?
- “All this statecraft and eloquence and lofty purpose and cleverness was attended with great luxuriousness of life, with wanton drunkenness and lewdness, with effeminacy in dress, — he would trail long purple robes through the market place, — and with prodigal expenditures.”
- A student and possibly-lover of Socrates, and saved his life in battle once. Also the Symposium (you know, with the story about how people used to be two people joined together) is full of their soap opera relationship drama about Alcibiades trying to seduce Socrates.
- In the middle of being a successful Athenian general in the Athens-Sparta war, he got exiled for being an atheist and smashing up some sacred statues of dicks.
- Rather than go live quietly in exile he switched sides and joined the Spartans until they kicked him out too for sleeping with the King of Sparta’s wife.
- But he was such a good general that Athens asked him back to win more battles for them, only to kick him out again just before the war ended.
- Nevertheless showed up at the Athenian’s last stand battle to give them some good tactical advice, which they ignored and promptly got their asses kicked.
- Was finally murdered a year later, either by Spartan assassins or by the angry family of a girl he’d hooked up with.
- Basically his entire life was being kickass and flamboyant and sleeping with inappropriate people and getting kicked out of countries.
- Oh, and he had the decks of his boats removed so he could string bedding across the gap and build a comfortable nest to sleep in.
WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS.
Peak dumbass energy
δεν με νοιάζει τι λέει κανένα κείμενο, ο Πάτροκλος ήταν ο ψηλότερος
Ο Αχιλλέας έχει αυτο το short and full of rage βαιμπς
Αυτό είναι big brain energy
