Alcibiades was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was married to Hipparete, a wealthy Athenian woman. He had a close relationship with Socrates, whom he admired and admired. He is said to have saved Socrates’ life at the Battle of Potia in 432 BC.
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Alcibiades was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was the last member of his mother’s aristocratic family, the Alcmaeonidae. During the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his political allegiance several times. In his native Athens in the early 410s BC, he advocated an aggressive foreign policy. He fled to Sparta after his political enemies brought charges of sacrilege against him. In Sparta, he served as a strategic adviser, proposing or supervising several major campaigns against Athens. He then served as an Athenian general for several years, but his enemies eventually succeeded in exiling him a second time. Once restored to his native city, however, he played a crucial role in a string of Athenian victories that eventually brought Sparta to seek a peace with Athens. According to Plutarch, he had several famous teachers, including Socrates, and was well trained in the art of Rhetoric. His unruly behavior was mentioned by ancient Greek and Latin writers on several occasions. He is said to have saved Socrates’ life at the Battle of Potia in 432 BC. Alcibiade was married to Hipparete, a wealthy Athenian woman. He had a close relationship with Socrates, whom he admired and admired. He died in 424 BC, but left a fortune to his wife, which significantly increased her dowry, which she gave to her husband’s daughter.
He also had a son, Cleinias, who was a friend of Cleisthenes, the famous constitutional reformer of the late 6th century BC. His mother was Deinomache, the daughter of Megacles, head of the powerful AlcMAeonid family, and could trace her family back to Eurysaces and the Telamonian Ajax. After the death of Cleinia at the battle of Coronea, Pericles and Ariphron became his guardians. It was believed that Socrates took AlcibiADE as a student because he believed he could change Alcibiading from his vain ways. He took part in the Battle. of Pota, where his life was saved and again at theBattle. of Delium, where he was said to has saved Socrates’s life in 424BC. He later died in Athens in 432BC, but was buried in Delium. His family had old connections with the Spartan aristocracy through a relationship of xenia, and the name ‘Alcibades’ was of Spartan origin. His maternal grandfather, also named Alcibades, was a friends of Cleistshenes,. After his death, his maternal grandfather became the guardian of his son Pericles, who later became a member of the Athenian senate. He left a large fortune, which he passed on to his daughter Hipparene, who married Hippareus Hippus Hipparetus, the son of Hipparese Hippus, and had a large dowry with whom he had an affair.
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