Plato's Alcibiades

Alcibiades is this glamorous charismatic beautiful he is apparently most physically beautiful person and Athens male or female general statesman politician speaker bad boy. Alcibiades fell in love with Socrates turning on its head the normal Athenian upper class convention of the time whereby an older man would have a quasi physically erotic affair with a younger male lover in his teens or early 20s okay so this character arrives at our dinner party he's not heard the earlier speeches he arrives drunk he's got a wreath of violets and ivy on his head which is tipped over his eye, supported by flute girls who were a form of courtesan. You get one of the most moving and powerful descriptions