Alcibiades

Alcibiades Cleiniou Scambonides (ancient Greek: ΑΛΚΙΒΙΑΔΗΣ ΚΛΕΙΝΙΟΥ ΣΚΑΜΒΩΝΙΔΗΣ)¹ (c. 450 BC-404 BC) was an Athenian general and politician.

Sources about the life of Alcibiades

• Aristophanes mentions Alcibiades several times in his satirical plays, for instance making fun of his manner of speech.
• Alcibiades figures in several Socratic dialogues:
• Plato's Symposium where he appears to be in love with Socrates.
• There are two dialogues from antiquity titled "Alcibiades", ascribed to Plato, both of them however probably spurious, that feature Socrates in conversation with Alcibiades: First Alcibiades (or Alcibiades I) and Second Alcibiades (or Alcibiades II): see Alcibiades (dialogues)
• Plutarch gives a biography of Alcibiades, and compares his life with that of Coriolanus, see Parallel Lives.