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Category:	Ancient History
Name:	Alcibiades
Birth Year:	c. 450 BCE
Death Year:	-404
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Alcibiades! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Athenian statesman and general. He agitated against Sparta during the Peloponnesian war but switched sides after his recall to Athens on false charges during the campaign in Sicily in 415. Alcibiades later directed the Athenian fleet in the Aegean and in 410 won a victory over the Peloponnesian fleet. He was a ward of the general Pericles and a devoted follower of the philosopher Socrates. The Great Books: Alcibiades Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Alcibiades. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Alcibiades. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained manually by Russell McNeil for Malaspina Great Books.
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This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of the always controversial Great Books Core List published in 1940 by the late Great Books Pioneer Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Most of the works on that list are available in the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.