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Alcibiades thereby, through his mother, belonged to the powerful and controversial family of the Alcmaeonidae ; the renowned Pericles and his brother Ariphron were Deinomache's cousins, as her father and their mother were siblings.
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Historians Arnold W. Gomme and Raphael Sealey believe, and Thucydides reports, that Alcibiades was offended that the Spartans had negotiated that treaty through Nicias and Laches, overlooking him on account of his youth.
Theramenes remained a general through 407 BC, but, in that year, when the Athenian defeat at Notium led to the downfall of Alcibiades and his political allies, Theramenes was not reelected.
Historians Arnold W. Gomme and Raphael Sealey believe, and Thucydides reports, that Alcibiades was offended that the Spartans had negotiated that treaty through Nicias and Laches, overlooking him on account of his youth.
Alcibiades proposed to first attempt to win over allies on the island through diplomacy, and then attack Selinus and Syracuse.
The crime of Alcibiades and his drinking-mates, for which Socrates eventually indirectly paid with his life, was the desecration of herm figures through Athens in the dead of night.
Alcibiades and mother
Cleisthenes was the uncle of Pericles ' mother Agariste and of Alcibiades ' maternal grandfather Megacles.
The younger son Cleisthenes was allegedly father of Deinomache ( or Dinomache ), mother of Alcibiades ( d. 404 BC ).
Alcibiades and belonged
Pericles and Alcibiades also belonged to the Alcmaeonidae, and during the Peloponnesian War the Spartans referred to the family's curse in an attempt to discredit Pericles.
Alcibiades and powerful
In Sparta too, however, Alcibiades soon made powerful enemies and was forced to defect to Persia.
Alcibiades ' military and political talents frequently proved valuable to whichever state currently held his allegiance, but his propensity for making powerful enemies ensured that he never remained in one place for long ; and, by the end of the war he had helped rekindle in the early 410s, his days of political relevance were a bygone memory.
In his speech Alcibiades predicted ( over-optimistically, in the opinion of most historians ) that the Athenians would be able to recruit allies in the region and impose their rule on Syracuse, the most powerful city of Sicily.
Alcibiades and controversial
As general, he was responsible for recalling the controversial nobleman Alcibiades from exile, and the two worked together extensively over the next several years.
Alcibiades had already been a controversial figure in Athenian politics for some years before then-he had combined with Nicias to bring about the ostracism of the populist leader Hyperbolus.
Alcibiades and family
He then adds that Clinias, younger brother of Alcibiades, was taken from the family for fear that Alcibiades would corrupt him, and he was given back as a hopeless case.
Alcibiades and Alcmaeonidae
Alcibiades, as the previous generation of Alcmaeonidae had done, tried to ally with the Persians after he was accused of impiety.
Alcibiades and ;
Because of his bellicose nature Albert received the cognomen Alcibiades after his death ; during his lifetime Albert was known as Bellator ( the Warlike ).
In this battle, the Athenians drew the Spartan fleet out to pursue a small force led by Alcibiades ; when the Spartans had gotten a good distance from land, two squadrons under the command of Thrasybulus and Theramenes appeared in their rear to cut off their retreat.
The Spartans, however, with the assistance of a Persian army, began to drive this Athenian force into the sea ; seeing this, Thrasybulus landed his own force to temporarily relieve pressure on Alcibiades, and meanwhile ordered Theramenes to join up with Athenian land forces nearby and bring them to reinforce the sailors and marines on the beach.
Thrasybulus was either removed from command on the spot by Alcibiades or not reelected at the end of his term ; either way, he was out of office from then until the end of the war.
Alcibiades, son of Clinias, from the deme of Scambonidae (; Greek:, transliterated Alkibiádēs Kleiníou Skambōnidēs ; c. 450 – 404 BC ), was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.
In the years that he served Sparta, Alcibiades played a significant role in Athens ' undoing ; the capture of Decelea and the revolts of several critical Athenian subjects occurred either at his suggestion or under his supervision.
But Tissaphernes was unwilling to take action and tried to achieve his aim by astute and often perfidious negotiations ; Alcibiades persuaded him that Persia's best policy was to keep the balance between Athens and Sparta, and rivalry with his neighbour Pharnabazus of Hellespontic Phrygia still further lessened his energy.
Thrasybulus and Alcibiades kept the Spartans occupied while Theramenes joined up with the nearby Athenian land forces and then hurried to the rescue ; his arrival precipitated a total Athenian victory, in which all the Spartan ships were captured.
1948 ; this work also includes such historical figures as Alcibiades, Aristippus, Avicenna, Democritus, and Dionysius the Younger as speakers ), and Iris Murdoch, who included not only Socrates and Alcibiades as interlocutors in her work Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues ( 1986 ), but featured a young Plato himself as well.
Alcibiades begins by comparing Socrates to a statue of Silenus ; the statue is ugly and hollow, and inside it is full of tiny golden statues of the gods ( 215a-b ).
Alcibiades states that when he hears Socrates speak, he is beside himself ; the words of Socrates are the only words that have ever upset him so deeply that his soul started to protest that his own aristocratic life was no better than a slave's ( 215e ).
Socrates responded that if he did have this power to make Alcibiades a better man, why would he exchange his true ( inner ) beauty for the image of beauty that Alcibiades would provide ; and furthermore, Alcibiades might be wrong, and Socrates may be of no use to him ( 218e-219a ).
He then slipped under Socrates ' cloak and spent the night beside him ; yet, to the deep humiliation of Alcibiades, Socrates made no sexual attempt ( 219b-d ).
In 416 BC, the Athenian general Alcibiades had seven chariots in the race, and came in first, second and fourth ; obviously, he could not have been racing all seven chariots himself.
For a time, Thrasybulus and Alcibiades were both driven back by superior forces, but the arrival of Theramenes and Chaereas turned the tide ; the Spartans and Persians were defeated, Mindarus was killed.
At the first assembly that authorized the expedition, the Athenians named Nicias, Alcibiades, and Lamachus as its commanders ; that decision remained unchanged at the second assembly.
A fleet of this size ( 80 ships remained at Notium after Alcibiades ' departure ) would traditionally have been commanded by several generals, or at the least by a trierarch ; Alcibiades ' unconventional decision has been widely criticized by both ancient and modern authors.
Upon receiving news of the battle, Alcibiades lifted the siege of Phocaea and returned south to reinforce the fleet at Notium ; this restored rough numerical parity between the two fleets.
Because of term limits on the position of navarch, Lysander was replaced by Callicratidas ; on the Athenian side, the fall of Alcibiades also brought down his friends Thrasybulus and Theramenes, and the overall command was given to Conon.
Alcibiades and Pericles
* 421 Peace of Nicias brings temporary end to war, but Alcibiades, a nephew of Pericles, makes anti-Sparta alliance
That he studied general history, as we see from the quotations in Plutarch's lives of Lycurgus, Solon, Aristides, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander, Agesilaus, and Demosthenes, which were probably borrowed from the work on Lives.
The battle of ideas had led to some unlikely friendships that cut across personal and class differences, such as between the socially alert Pericles and the unworldly Anaxagoras, and between the handsome aristocrat, Alcibiades, and the ugly plebeian, Socrates.
Thus, Megacles the elder was great-grandfather of Pericles and Alcibiades.
Pericles, Aristides and Alcibiades spoke here, within sight of the Parthenon, temple of Athena.
Alcibiades and were
In the final stages of the preparations for departure, the hermai ( religious statues ) of Athens were mutilated by unknown persons, and Alcibiades was charged with religious crimes.
The Spartans were forced to flee to a nearby beach, where Alcibiades landed his men in an attempt to seize the Spartan ships.
The Athenians initially received these ambassadors well, but Alcibiades met with them in secret before they were to speak to the ecclesia ( the Athenian Assembly ) and told them that the Assembly was haughty and had great ambitions.
This incident reveals that Nicias and Alcibiades each commanded a personal following, whose votes were determined by the wishes of the leaders.
Alcibiades was not one of the Generals involved in the capture of Melos in 416 – 415 BC, but Plutarch describes him as a supporter of the decree by which the grown men of Melos were killed and the women and children enslaved.
Against his wishes Nicias was appointed General along with Alcibiades and Lamachus, all three of whom were given full powers to do whatever was in the best interests of Athens while in Sicily.
Alcibiades came to warn them of the danger of their position, as they were at an open beach without harbors, and advised them to move to Sestos about two miles distant where they were retrieving supplies from, but was ignored and perhaps ridiculed.
Thurii was, in fact, the city where Alcibiades escaped his Athenian captors who were taking him home for trial.
His severity, however, made him unpopular, and in his absence the gates were opened to the Athenian besieging army under Alcibiades ( 409 ).
His opponents were eager to have Alcibiades ' trial in his absence when he could not defend himself.
Claiming that he had great influence with Tissaphernes, Alcibiades promised to return to Athens, bringing Persian support with him, if the democracy that had exiled him were replaced with an oligarchy.
They eventually dispatched Peisander to Athens, where, by promising that the return of Alcibiades and an alliance with Persia would follow if the Athenians would replace their democracy with an oligarchy, he persuaded the Athenian ecclesia to send him as an emissary to Alcibiades, authorized to make whatever arrangements were necessary.
Moreover the trial of Socrates followed Athens ' traumatic defeat by Sparta, many years after the performance of the play, when suspicions about the philosopher were fuelled by public animosity towards his disgraced associates ( such as Alcibiades ).
The Athenians initially received these ambassadors well, but Alcibiades met with them in secret before they were to speak to the ecclesia ( the Athenian Assembly ) and told them that the Assembly was haughty and had great ambitions.
This incident reveals that Nicias and Alcibiades each commanded a personal following, whose votes were determined by the wishes of the leaders.
Against his wishes Nicias was appointed General along with Alcibiades and Lamachus, all three of whom were given full powers to do whatever was in the best interests of Athens while in Sicily.
Following this defeat in battle, Demosthenes suggested that the Athenians immediately give up the siege of Syracuse and return to Athens, where they were needed to defend against an Alcibiades ’ inspired Spartan invasion of Attica.
Yet Socrates made no moves, and Alcibiades began to pursue Socrates " as if I were the lover and he my young prey!
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