Dearest readership,
Welcome to the newest installment of this masterwork. I had tragically witnessed some strife in the comment depository last installment, but please trust that my work may not be fully understood by the rabble. True critics will understand my art.
I shall have to provide what is known as a 'content warning' for this particular installment, as I have heard is the correct etiquette for the World Wide Web.
It follows as so:
This chapter contains artistic depictions of warfare. If you are sensitive to such topics, kindly look after your own self. I have the most respect for the veterans who endeavor to protect our dear Hellas.
(Against the Spartans. But I shall not go into politics.)
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{Pointeth Of Vieweth: You, the reader, are nearing the conclusion of an upmost satisfying honeyed moon with your dearest spouse - Socrates. You have been on many adventures with your life partner across the island, despite a chilling omen of a dream in which you encountered the fellow philosopher Diogenes. Now, the two of you are enjoying your final night together before returning to your home in Attica.}
SOCRATES: My dear, dear wife, how doest thou enjoy the caviar and sparkling wine I hath provided for you?
YOUR NAME: Oh, Socrates... How you charm me with your beautiful wordsmithing. This caviar is most scrumptious, and this sparkling wine does, indeed, please my palate.
SOCRATES: This does please me so to hear. Now, my darling, shall we embark on our continued philosophical discussion?
YOUR NAME: Of course, my love. What philosophical branch have you been pondering as of late?
SOCRATES: I have been thinking of just war theory, which discusses what allows a conflict between states to be justified. This sets up a theatre of war wherein one state is justified in its fighting due to the other being the aggressor. Would you believe this applies to our present geopolitical situation?
YOUR NAME: Why, Socrates, you cannot be talking about the present tensions between Athens and Sparta? Please say you are simply referring to the Greco-Persian Wars, which were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
SOCRATES: Alas, dear, I do not mean those previous conflicts with the Persians, in which the Hellas became unified in order to drive out the threat to our precious home. I do, indeed, speak of the growing tensions between our beloved Athens and wretched Sparta.
YOUR NAME: My... You do not give such importance to the small matter of Corcyra?
SOCRATES, standing from his chair to gaze out the window: My dear, there are matters more encompassing than Corcyra in our present climate. This is the reason why I have brought up such a point of discussion in our talks.
YOUR NAME: Socrates...?
SOCRATES, turning to stare at you with his piercing, stormy eyes: There has been a dispute at Potidaea. A battle is oncoming. I am going to war, YOUR NAME.
YOUR NAME: What?
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