One of history’s most ardent collectors of curious notes, interesting texts, and odd passages, Aulus Gellius (c. 125–180 A.D.), relates quite an amusing story in his Noctes Atticae about the famous general Alcibiades. Alcibiades (c. 450–404 B.C.) was Greek, Athenian to be exact, and made a name for himself as both a military commander but […]
