Dec 11– From “Alcibiades” from Plutarch’s Lives

 Alcibiades, Archibald, same thing.

Dec 11–  From “Alcibiades” from Plutarch’s Lives

Summary: Alcibiades was very pretty. But also smart. Shitty husband though.

Commentary: Every time an Ajax is in one of these, I go to check if it's the big one or the little one, and I like to think that "which Ajax was it?" was a meme ~3000 years ago.

I was going to say "Megacles" sounds like an intentionally annoying nickname and/or made up, but I realized all names are made up. (I took cold medicine.)

There's a sick burn tonight:

“Therefore,” said he, “let the Theban youths pipe, who do not know how to speak, but we Athenians, as our ancestors have told us, have Minerva for our patroness, and Apollo for our protector, one of whom threw away the flute, and the other stripped the Flute-player of his skin.”

Stick a fork in Thebes. They're done. 

Also, I learned Socrates was a soldier for a time. I just kind of figured he was a philosopher-bum for his whole life.

Alcibiades gets in a fight with a guy, the marries his sister and makes him pay for all his kids. But then he cheats on her and she tries to divorce him. It's the weirdest part of the reading.