Alcibiades punches a guy in the ear, gets in trouble, shows up at the guy’s house, strips naked and apologizes, marries his daughter. TA DA.

>He [**Alcibiades**] gave a box on the ear to Hipponicus, the father of Callias, whose birth and wealth made him a person of great influence and repute. And this he did unprovoked by any passion or quarrel between them, but only because, in a frolic, he had agreed with his companions to do it. People were justly offended at this insolence when it became known through the city; but early the next morning, Alcibiades went to his house and knocked at the door, and being admitted to him, took off his outer garment, and presenting his naked body, desired him to scourge and chastise him as he pleased. Upon this Hipponicus forgot all his resentment, and not only pardoned him, but soon after gave him his daughter [Hipparete]( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Bust_Alcibiades_Musei_Capitolini_MC1160.jpg) in marriage. ________________________________________ **Source:** Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Alcibiades." *Plutarch's Lives*. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 263. Print. ________________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Ἱππόνικος (Hipponicus III)]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipponicus_III) [Kαλλίας (Callias III)]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callias_III) [Ἀλκιβιάδης Κλεινίου Σκαμβωνίδης (Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, from the deme of Scambonidae)]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades) [Ἱππαρέτη (Hipparete)]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparete)