#alcibiades

[kebriones]

Aeschines fragment my beloved

[beluosus]

[symposiumlover]

Party night w Alcibiades would fix me

[aca-sonia]

[elainesknight]

Plato was really one of the first rpf truthers to ever live

[girlcatilina]

alcibiades

[thoodleoo]

the rest of us can only hope to be so accomplished someday

[classicsstudentsunion]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the sicilian expedition” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever i don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw somebody destroying the hermai of Athens

my buddy androcles pacing: alcibiades is lying to us

[margaretkart]

There was something really captivating about Alcibiades when i first learned about him reading about the Peloponnese war. On a first glance it'll sound even funny how many times he would switch sides. Which resulted in many enemies and almost zero trust from his peers.

Personally i was questioning often the reasons why he would do it and then in the symposium doing such profound speeches about love, then his relationship with Pericles, Socrates and his close people in general.

From even the little information about him picture very much a very complex person who lived his life the the fullest until the end and most certainly left a mark many unfortunately now ignore.

[constantlyreadingg]

Something my bf made of me that i can't get over lmao

[kebriones]

i'm sure he's not about to profane the eleusinian mysteries or take part in foreign orgiastic rituals or get very drunk and cause any problems.

[iammycharacter]

I had to type "Alcibiades is Infertile" in my paper and I don't think I'll ever recover.

I also had to type "Socrates wants to impregnate Alcibiades" and that did so much phycological damage. Mind you I'm not shitposting this is a serious academic paper I'm turning in to my professors.

[nateconnolly]

Alcibiades, you absolutely don't have time to mope about not being in old man yaoi. The heads of the gods have been fucking mutilated.

[itskenwaybitch]

goofy ahh alcibiades facts pt. 2

So I bought The Life of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens by Jacqueline de Romilly :p (I’m aware theres a free pdf of the book somewhere but i like reading physical books better,,,) I used this book for my essay on the man and, when I post this, I will have finished reading the book for funsies. Here’s some more unhinged Alcibiades moments that I have gathered from this book alone with some of my own anecdotes sprinkled in there. Enjoy :) 👍🏻

Related to Ajax supposedly

Dramatic as fuck since birth.As a kid he lay down in the road in front of a cart that messed with the BONES(???) he was playing with and told the driver to run him over?????

Slapped a teacher for not giving him one of Homer’s books

Frequently ran out of money and mansplained manipulated manwhored his way out of the consequences.

Mansplain manipulate manwhore was his entire personality and philosophy, actually.

Slapped his father-in-law and proceeded to demand more money out of his wife’s family. (Those two incidents were not related.)

Slept with the Queen of Sparta behind her husband’s back and got (another) child

One of his lovers, Anytus, invited Alcibiades to dinner and he refused. Alcibiades then proceeded to get drunk and raided Anytus’ house. <3

One of Al’s buddies, Diomedes, asked him to buy a chariot for him from the government of Argos, since Alcibiades had a lot of influence there. Diomedes told Alcibiades to buy it on Diomedes’ account. Alcibiades bought the chariot and kept it for himself.

[dearlavenderbear]

Alcibiades 🍷

[slettlune]

wait so the dryden translation of plutarch says that in sparta, alcibiades was seen

wearing his hair close cut, bathing in cold water, eating coarse meal, and dining on black broth

while the perrin translation says he was

with his hair untrimmed, taking cold baths, on terms of intimacy with their coarse bread, and supping on black porridge

were people shocked that he cut his hair or that he didn't cut his hair??? i need to know