Alcibiades - Wikipedia During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his political allegiance several times In his native Athens in the early 410s BC, he advocated an aggressive foreign policy and was a prominent proponent of the Sicilian Expedition
Alcibiades | Biography, Socrates, Facts | Britannica Alcibiades, brilliant but unscrupulous Athenian politician and military commander who provoked the sharp political antagonisms at Athens that were the main causes of Athens’ defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE)
Alcibiades - World History Encyclopedia Alcibiades (or Alkibiades) was a gifted and flamboyant Athenian statesman and general whose shifting of sides during the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BCE earned him a reputation for cunning and treachery
Alcibiades: His Relationship with Socrates, Political Life, and . . . Alcibiades was a brilliant and colorful Athenian politician with a penchant for switching sides during the Peloponnesian War He was a student and comrade of Socrates, with whom he maintained a complex relationship
Alcibiades: The cunning Greek general who betrayed both the Athenians . . . Alcibiades was one of the most controversial figures of the Peloponnesian War He belonged to a wealthy Athenian family and used his lineage and charm accompanied by political cunning to rise to the highest levels of influence in Athens
Alcibiades - New World Encyclopedia He was the last famous member of his mother's aristocratic family, the Alcmaeonidae, which fell from prominence after the Peloponnesian War He played a major role in the second half of that conflict as a strategic advisor, military commander, and politician
Biography of Alcibiades, Ancient Greek Soldier-Politician Alcibiades (450–404 BCE) was a controversial politician and warrior in ancient Greece, who switched allegiances between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) and was eventually lynched by a mob for it
The Internet Classics Archive | Alcibiades by Plutarch Upon his first appearance, both sides formed a false impression; the enemy was encouraged and the Athenians terrified But Alcibiades suddenly raised the Athenian ensign in the admiral ship, and fell upon those galleys of the Peloponnesians which had the advantage and were in pursuit