This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c.
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As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly documents, Alcibiades\'s Life is one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. 450-404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy.
This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c