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Nta, but Thucydides gives an account of how Alcibiades ran afoul of Athens just as the Sicilian expedition was about to begin. The Athenians had statues of Hermes called "Herms" outside of their houses. They were basically pillars with a bust of Hermes' head...and a phallus sticking out from the middle of the pillar. One morning, a bunch of Athenians wake up and notice that a whole bunch of the dicks have been smashed off the Herms, and suspicion falls on Alcibiades. But, at least according to Thucydides, it's a bullshit political charge levied by his Oligarchic rivals, and they further got a bunch of slaves to claim that he also blasphemied the Mysteries with a bunch of associates, which was grounds for punishment by death. But again, Thucydides, who thinks Alcibiades is a shitty demagogue, thinks this was bogus.
