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Alcibiades - Genius and Playboy of Ancient Greece - YouTube. Raconteur - Mythology & History. 93.1K subscribers. Subscribed. 647. 21K views 3 years ago. Alcibiades, often considered the most...
English. LibriVox recording of Alcibiades I, by Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Read by Kevin Johnson. As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation.
"Alcibiades, the golden boy of late fifth-century Athenian society, is approached, with devious diffidence, by the philosopher Socrates, who professes to be ...
Plato’s Alcibiades 1. Plato’s. Alcibiades. 1. Persons in the dialogue: Socrates, Alcibiades. Soc: 103A Son of Cleinias, I think you are amazed that, being your first lover, I alone have not departed now that the others have gone, and although the others conversed with you in droves, I, in contrast, have not addressed you for so many years.
Alcibiades. (died 404 B.C.E.) By Plutarch. Written 75 A.C.E. Translated by John Dryden. Alcibiades, as it is supposed, was anciently descended from Eurysaces, the son of Ajax, by his father's side; and by his mother's side from Alcmaeon. Dinomache, his mother, was the daughter of Megacles. His father, Clinias, having fitted out a galley at his ...
Definition. 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. Good-looking and rich, he was also notorious for his extravagant lifestyle and loose morals.
1.31M subscribers. Subscribed. 7.7K. 213K views 4 years ago #thehistoryguy #ancienthistory #history. Intrigue has always been a part of both diplomacy and war. In ancient Greece, one enterprising...
