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"A translation of a biography of the Athenian general Alcibiades by Jacqueline de Romilly, a French scholar and mem
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A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is a strikingl
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Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens’ Golden Age. A friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich,
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