Alcibiades, the son of Cleinias, grew up in the house of his guardian Pericles and was apprenticed to Socrates. He broke with Nicias when the latter became aware of his grandiose plans for a Sicilian expedition, for which he was elected
general He escaped to Sparta where he offered his services, encouraging the Spartans to send a general to Sicily and install a garrison at Decelea in Attica |
Later he succeeded the Persian satrap Tissaphernes, with whose support he had tried in vain to secure his return to Athens, where he intended to establish an oligarchic constitution. In He sought refuge with the Persian Pharnabazus, and was murdered in Phrygia, most probably on the orders of the Thirty tyrants and the Spartan Lysander. |
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