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Alcibiades - Idealized Portrait. Inscription is modern.Public Domain. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Alcibiades - Idealized Portrait. Inscription is modern.
A guardian of his relative Pericles and a student of Socrates, Alcibiades (c. 450–404) was an Athenian military leader and statesman. During the preparations for the invasion of Sicily, the statues to Hermes, known as Herms, were mutilated, and Alcibiades was accused of the vandalism. He was allowed to set sail before his trial, but while he was out of Athens his opponents convicted him. Alcibiades turned traitor and helped the Spartans win the Peloponnesian War.
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