Alcibiade

Athenian statesman · 450–404 BC

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Alcibiades through a scene from Plato's Symposium: his drunken arrival at the end of the dialogue to deliver a praise of Socrates1. He often comes back to this scene and adds details: Alcibiades arrives drunk, held up by flute girls, and he makes him a figure of the "saltator"2. Elsewhere he suggests that this entrance takes place in the Lydian mode, in connection with music3. He stresses the relationship with Socrates. Alcibiades, the most handsome young man in Athens, tried to seduce him but never succeeded4 5. In another passage, he is a young man of lively temperament whom Socrates managed to win over6. He analyses Alcibiades' seductiveness as that of the attributes of the dominant, which he calls "bling bling"7. He also uses Alcibiades, more occasionally, as the model for the statue in the example of the four causes8.

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Alcibiades (; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιβιάδης; c. 450 – 404 BC) was an Athenian statesman and general. The last of the Alcmaeonidae, he played a major role in the second half of the Peloponnesian War as a strategic advisor, military commander, and politician, but subsequently fell from prominence. During the course of 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 and was a prominent proponent of the Sicilian Expedition. […]

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