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Sep 21, 2022 · Alcibiades was a brilliant and colorful Athenian politician with a penchant for switching sides during the Peloponnesian War. He was a student and comrade of Socrates, with whom he maintained a complex relationship. Also, he cuckolded the King of Sparta, and he was one of the best strategists to sail the seas in the 5th century BCE.
onger had he continued his self-restraint.– H. BlitsUniversity of Delaware (emeritus)Ar. el Helfer: Socrates and Alcibiades: Plato’s Drama of Political Ambitio. 001218After Socrates, the most prominent figur. in Platos dialogues is the intensely’ambitious and politically notorious Alcibiades. In ancient Athens, it was rumored that Socra.
Oct 8, 2024 · Alcibiades (born c. 450 bce, Athens [Greece]—died 404, Phrygia [now in Turkey]) was a brilliant but unscrupulous Athenian politician and military commander who provoked the sharp political antagonisms at Athens that were the main causes of Athens’ defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 bce). Well-born and wealthy, Alcibiades ...
- Russell Meiggs
democracy, I think Socrates should have helped. The second time Alcibiades betrays Socrates by not taking advice to try to figure out why he was acting silly, which is what Socrates wanted to do with him, I think Socrates did the right thing by saying that Alcibiades didn’t deserve his help. I think Socrates might have tried to help before.
When Socrates was accused in 399 BC of corrupting the young, the harm that his one-time associate Alcibiades did to Athens provided fuel for the charges against him. By setting the Symposium in 416 BC, just one year before Alcibiades led Athens on the disastrous Sicilian expedition, Plato revisits the charge that Socrates corrupts the young. In particular, does Socrates' freedom from the ...
- Mary P Nichols
- 2007
Socrates. (469—399 B.C.E.) Socrates is one of the few individuals whom one could say has so-shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that, without him, history would be profoundly different. He is best known for his association with the Socratic method of question and answer, his claim that he was ignorant (or aware of ...
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Dec 17, 2023 · This guidance and mentorship gave Alcibiades the tools he needed to grow and mature as an individual.Furthermore, Socrates' philosophical teachings and influence on Alcibiades went beyond personal moral development and self-reflection. Socrates encouraged Alcibiades to think critically and analytically about larger political and societal issues.
