earlhamclassics:romegreeceart:A mosaic depicting Greek statesman Alcibiades (450-405 BCE). * date:
earlhamclassics:romegreeceart:A mosaic depicting Greek statesman Alcibiades (450-405 BCE). * date: 1-400 CE* Archaeological museum of SpartaSource: From livius.org with permmision. Creator Jan van VlietLicence: Attribution 1.0 Generic (CC BY 1.0)This bastard looks every inch as smug as Socrates called him out for:“You, [Alcibiades] say you have no need of any man in any matter; for your resources are so great, beginning with the body and ending with the soul, that you lack nothing. You think that you are foremost in beauty and stature—and you are not mistaken in this, as is plain for all to see—and that you are of the most gallant family in the greatest city in Greece.” (Plato Alcibiades 1.104a) -- source link
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