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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A modern Alcibiades!

Military career

Allegiance

Athens (432–415 BC)
Sparta (415–412 BC)
Persia (412–411 BC)

Branch

Athenian military (432–415 BC)
Spartan army (415–412 BC)
Achaemenid military (412–411 BC)
[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay but according to Assassins Creed he was a cute twink

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

NOOOOO He can't keep getting away with it!

[–] newacctidk@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Always felt bad for Alcibiades, dude got fucked over for trying to actually win the war.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

A tragic anti-hero, yes, and thus the most Athenian out of anyone, but every time I go back to the sources I find him worse and worse. I read a fun paper a while back that pointed out that all of his claims to fame were almost winning something. With the exception, I suppose, of the Olympic chariot teams he sponsored, and even there he hedged his bets by entering seven teams.

Plus he has all sorts of domestic violence anecdotes and stories like "Alcibiades once went into a bookshop and asked for some Homer. The bookseller said he was all out of Homer. At this Alcibiades wittily punched him in the face."