Five things not commonly known about Alcibiades:

His first job was delivering fresh water to statesmen. He was paid with aphorisms. It was while performing this job that Alcibiades saw his first adult penis. He was unimpressed, but also remembers it as the moment in which things started to make “sense.” He never elaborated on exactly what that might mean.

For one week, Alcibiades attempted to get his friends to call him “Al,” something which never caught on.

Alcibiades once killed a rat in a back alley. He captured it in the folds of his toga and let it wriggle there, the fabric rough against his bare skin. He dropped the rat in a corner and then dropped a rock on it. He turned away immediately and never looked back, literally or metaphorically. (There is some historical debate - the rat may have survived.)

The first time he rode a horse into battle, he was visibly aroused, something that did not go uncommented on by the other soldiers, some of whom started calling him “Little Al,” a particularly biting insult.

When learning cartography, he once spent a full minute scraping at a map with his fingernail in an attempt to remove a piece of dirt. It turned out that speck of dirt was Sicily. When his teacher asked what he was doing, he flippantly replied, “I hate Sicilians,” something he spent his whole life convincing himself he believed. The map-scraping was one of the most unfortunate occurrences of his unpleasant life.