“Bees are the smallest of birds. They are born from the bodies of oxen, or from the decaying flesh of slaughtered calves; worms form in the flesh and then turn into bees. Bees live in community, choose the most noble among them as king, have wars, and make honey. Their laws are based on custom, but the king does not enforce the law; rather the lawbreakers punish themselves by stinging themselves to death. Bees are afraid of smoke and are excited by noise. Each has its own duty: guarding the food supply, watching for rain, collecting dew to make honey, and making wax from flowers.”
That said, I feel like any scene in which the leads meet and fail to recognize each other at a masquerade should specify that they are wearing full-body costumes (Darth Vader,sports team mascots, etc), not just formalwear+little domino masks.
“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.
because he wants us to and i’m not giving him the satisfaction
How has this post not mentioned the fact that he did all of this with an exaggerated lisp?
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