I think I would like to work thru bit by bit....but so much of it is connected it will stray I think!!
for example, the morning Alexias ran up to the Acropolis to see the fleet..his father had a party planned for the evening and he told his father that he would get the best flowers (for the garlands) if he went early....he said about his father's reaction to him going alone..
"He laughed, knowing that I wanted an excuse to run about without my tutor; but he gave me leave, knowing too that at such an hour I should not meet too many temptations. It was well known that he in his young day was called Myron the Beautiful, just as you might say, Myron son of Philokles. But he thought, like all other fathers, that I was younger and sillier than he was at the same age."which tells ME that Alexias was reaching an age where he was beginning to attract attention. Interesting that Athenian upper middle class treated their youths almost like some societies did girls! with chaperones!! LOL!
and when he was IN the marketplace buying hyacinth:
A man who was there choosing myrtle smiled at me and said "You should have bought those first, Hyakinthos." it appears our 'ugly' duckling has changed!!
and Alexias's reaction?
"But I raised my eyebrows and went on without speaking."such a proper young man...well brought up! you'll not find the son of Myron chatting up men in the marketplace!!
like I said things begin to tie together now...getting more complicated...(don't you love it?)