The Critic Profile Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero, who would have felt at home in modern politics
In Sparta, Alcibiades embarked on an affair with the king’s wife, who bore him a son. Warned his life was in danger, he fled
By Armand D’Angour
Armand D’Angour is Professor of Classics at Jesus College, Oxford and author of Socrates in Love: The
Making of a Philosopher
SOUNDING BOARD
The career of the aristocratic Athenian politician, lover, general, and traitor Alcibiades (c. 451–404 BC) is so well documented and colourful that it would surely have spawned numerous Hollywood movies and novelistic treatments, had his name not been...
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