Alcibiades
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When his “political enemy,” the glib and popular Alcibiades, sways the assembly, Nicias replies that this means sending both a fleet and “large numbers of land forces.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
His questioning often embarrassed powerful people in Athens and made enemies, while his disciples included the politician Alcibiades and even some who had opposed Athenian democracy.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Given Socrates’ talents as an interlocutor, Pigliucci asks why he failed to educate the handsome, rich and powerful Alcibiades to become a better statesman.
From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2022
The other steadfast friend, the soldier Alcibiades, has been vastly rejiggered in an attempt to give the play a timely hook.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2020
And how was it that he yielded to Alcibiades the prize of preeminent valour, who had absolutely never joined in this expedition at all?
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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