White boy shocks staff at chinese restaurant by ordering in perfect ancient sumerian
The Speech of Alcibiades: A Reading of Plato’s Symposium, Martha Nussbaum
Diomedes: I am an unfeeling, killing MACHINE driven by only HONOR and VIOLENCE.
Achilles: Why is Odysseus sitting in your lap?
Odysseus: Don’t worry about it.
just learned that alexander the great and his bestie hephaestion made an offering to achilles and patroclus
how dull for you to live your life without any hills to die on, you, on your vast flat barren plains of compromise, acceptance, and accommodation, while I reign supreme over the lush, rolling highlands of stupid shit I have irrationally chosen to stake my entire identity on
in my modern retelling of Plato’s Symosium, we bump into Socrates after hes gotten buccal fat removal
Because of his flute issues, Alcibiades gets extra lyre homework. (what is he playing?)
Your boyfriend didn't even see the inner mysteries. The vestal virgins are ripping out his eyes. Because he sucks.
i finished this page. onwards to the next :D ___________
SOCRATES: Perhaps, at any rate, I am right in saying that all men greatly need pains and care, and you and I above all men.
ALCIBIADES: You are not far wrong about me.
SOCRATES: And certainly not about myself.
ALCIBIADES: But what can we do?
SOCRATES: There must be no hesitation or cowardice, my friend.
ALCIBIADES: That would not become us, Socrates.
SOCRATES: No, indeed, and we ought to take counsel together: for do we not wish to be as good as possible?
ALCIBIADES: We do.
SOCRATES: In what sort of virtue?
ALCIBIADES: Plainly, in the virtue of good men.
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"wE nEed to bE aS gOOd as pOsSible iN tHE viRtUe oF gOod meN"
-_- nicely said -_-
they hate me because i'm silly and so intense at the same time
Socrates
Alcibiades telling Socrates "but i will punish you later" is the hottest thing in the symposium.
I saw someone on TikTok saying Diogenes' Twitter would be insane, but I think we all fucking know.
He would be on Tumblr and Tumblr alone.
Obsessed with Socrates‘ nicknames for Alcibiades.
(Source: the dialogues of Plato translated by David Horan)
[seven screenshots from Alcibiades I by Plato. Highlighted are Socrates’ quotes “best of men”, “blessed man”, “dear Alcibiades”, “excellent Alcibiades”, “high-born Alcibiades, “my dear Alcibiades” and “dear Alcibiades?”]
oh no!!!
my ribcage split open, revealing a grotesque, vertical maw, slavering and bleeding, with uneven rows of jagged and splintered ribs for teeth!!!
and prom is TOMORROW!!!
I ain't arguin with an older butch. whatever you say handsome



