Alcibiades : (450-404 BC.), politician & military commander who provoked the bitter political antagonisms in Athens that were the main cause of Athens’ defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).
... the Mysteries had put on in some at least of their final developments as the process of degeneration increased which made a century later even the Eleusinian a butt for the dangerous mockeries of Alcibiades and his companions. His complaint is that the secret rites which the populace held in ignorant and superstitious reverence "unholily mysticise what are held among men as mysteries." He rebels against ...
... Athens proposing fifty years of peace. 420 BC — Alcibiades is named commander-in-chief. 416 BC — Athenian forces attack the island of Melos. Athenian forces kill all the men, enslave the women and children, and open the island to settlement by Athenians. 415 BC — Alcibiades leads an expedition to subjugate Sicily. When he is recalled to Athens... — Aristophanes is born. "Thirty Year Peace" is signed between Sparta and Athens. 432 BC — Socrates participates in the battle of Potidaea in which he saves the life of Alcibiades, a former student who would later become known for his deceit and treason. 431 BC — Peloponnesian War begins between Sparta and Athens. Socrates serves as a hoplite (a heavy... ed." 413 BC — Sparta, supported by Persia, declares war on Athens. Sparta claims the Athenians had repeatedly violated the Peace of Nicias. 411 BC — Alcibiades overthrows democracy in Athens and the dictatorship of the Four Hundred takes over. 410 BC — After four months in power, the dictatorship of the Four Hundred is deposed and replaced ...
... philosophy. Although far from the Greek ideal of beauty, his face shows the honesty, courage and humour which has come to be called "Socraticˮ. Plato speaks of him as all glorious within ¹ while Alcibiades, another disciple of Socrates, compares him to a statue of Selinus ² ugly on the outside but full of beautiful golden statues of the gods inside³ Socrates and his Times Every great... three sons and held public office for a short time. He distinguished himself during the Peloponnesian War by his endurance and courage, serving as a foot soldier. He saved the life of a young man, Alcibiades, who for a brief time was his student, and renounced in his favour the award for courage in battle. It is said that in one of the battles with Sparta, he was the last of the Athenians to retreat... death sentence, and the son of Anytus,39 who preferred to listen to the discourses of Socrates than apply his mind to the leather business his father wanted him to look after. And then there was Alcibiades, the Adonis of Athens, whose affections for his teacher made him cry out in wild abandon: When we hear any other speaker, even a very good one, his words produce absolutely no effect upon us ...
... partly quotes, is Iliad XViii. 94-106. 23 Potidaea in Chalcidice revolted from Athens in 432 and was reduced two years later. In the preliminary fighting Socrates saved the life of Alcibiades, as the latter relates in the Symposium (220 D). 24 Amphipolis: An Athenian colony at the mouth of the Strymon (Struma). The battle to which Socrates refers took place outside... s cleverness. Presumably it was his brains rather than his character that interested Socrates. Page .86 Phidias in the centre, Pericles and Aspasia on the left, Alcibiades on the right, admiring the work of the sculptor Page 87 Page 88 ...
... preliminary fighting Socrates saved the life of Alcibiades, as the latter relates in the Symposium (220 D). Amphipolis: An Athenian colony at the mouth of the Strymon (Struma). The battle to which Socrates refers took place outside the walls in 422. Delium in Boeotia was the scene of a heavy Athenian defeat in 424. According to Alcibiades in the passage quoted above, Socrates showed ...
... Plato, his chief disciple and one of the greatest philosophers of the world. Socrates had a friend whose name was Alcibiades. Once he went to the oracle of Delphi, whom he asked if there was any one wiser than Socrates. The oracle said that there was none. On hearing this, Alcibiades was very pleased and told Socrates what the oracle had spoken to him. But when Socrates heard this, he was greatly ...
... × A.E. Taylor , Plato, The Man and His Work (London: Methuen, 1926), p. 27. Taylor bases his discussion on passages from Plato's Alcibiades I and Euthydemus.— Ed. × John M. Thorburn , Art and the Unconscious (London: Kegan Paul & ...
... the rest, the primary & secondary utthapanas have to revive simultaneously & the continuity of the kamananda has to be confirmed. This has to be done today. Agesilaus = Sn [Saurin]. Agathon, Alcibiades, Pericles, Brasidas Agis, Agesilaus, Sophocles, Pharnabazus. Lysander, Euripides, Pausanias. Two absolutely perfect, the rest mostly defective. That is already done. Now for the physical ...
... the Mysteries had put on in some at least of their final developments as the process of degeneration increased which made a century later even the Eleusinian a butt for the dangerous mockeriesj of Alcibiades and his companions. His complaint is that the secret rites which the populace held in ignorant and superstitious reverence 'unholily mysticise what are held among men as mysteries'. He rebels against ...
... were fit to rule, the two examples of such a rule that Athens witnessed were so horrifying that one can understand the disapproval of the Athenians towards the teachings of Socrates. The fact that Alcibiades, who overthrew the democracy of Athens and established the dictatorship of the Four Hundred in 411 BC and earlier had turned traitor to Athens by siding with Sparta and Critias, the leader of the ...
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