person
Alcibiades
also: Alcibiade, Alcibiades
Athenian statesman and general (c. 450-404 BC), pupil of Socrates and leader of the Sicilian expedition of 415 BC; Cicero cites the discredited tale that he threw the comic poet Eupolis into the sea during that voyage.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §3.77 Socrates had persuaded Alcibiades
Alcibiades (c. 450-404 BC), the brilliant and dissolute Athenian aristocrat and pupil of Socrates. The story that Socrates reduced him to weeping shame over his moral worthlessness shows that distress can arise from the soul's real (shameful) evils.