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Alcibiades
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Alcibiades (
c.450–404 bc), Athenian general and statesman. He led the unsuccessful Athenian expeditions against Sparta and Sicily during the Peloponnesian War but fled to Sparta after being charged with sacrilege. He later held commands for Athens against Sparta and Persia before being exiled and later assassinated in Phrygia.
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Instances of Decision Theory in Plato's Alcibiades Major and Minor and in Xenophon's Memorabilia
Magazine article from: The Southern Journal of Philosophy; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...For example, to assess just how far Alcibiades is willing to go to attain his goal...Introduction: Scope of the Argument In Alcibiades Major we are meant to see the way Socrates...dismissed his other pursuers with disdain. Alcibiades has political ambitions but lacks the...
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WESTERLY BREEZE WINS ALCIBIADES.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 10/5/2002; 700+ words
; ...s Reception to win the $445,200 Alcibiades Stakes on Friday at Keeneland. Also...was Nafzger's second victory in the Alcibiades, the other coming when Zero Minus won...Atlantic Ocean, seeking to add the Alcibiades to her victory in the Kentucky Cup Juvenile...
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Temporary bar placed on the export of 2nd-century Roman marble statue of a Molossian dog, the dog of Alcibiades.
M2 Presswire; 6/26/2001; 700+ words
; ...statue of a Molossian dog, the dog of Alcibiades (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...a marble statue known as The Dog of Alcibiades. The sculpture, which is twice life...statue of a Molossian dog - The Dog of Alcibiades, deferred until after 26 August 2001...
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Westerly Breeze Wins Alcibiades
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/4/2002; 405 words
; ...s Reception to win the $445,200 Alcibiades Stakes on Friday at Keeneland. With...was Nafzger's second victory in the Alcibiades, the other coming when Zero Minus won...Atlantic Ocean, seeking to add the Alcibiades to her victory in the Kentucky Cup Juvenile...
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Be Gentle Wins Alcibiades at Keeneland
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/3/2003; ; 534 words
; ...Gentle to a win in the $400,000 Darley Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington...away in the stretch to win the Darley Alcibiades for 2-year-old fillies Friday at...trainer D. Wayne Lukas his sixth win the Alcibiades but first since 1995. Be Gentle covered...
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Utopia: With Erasmus's "The Sileni of Alcibiades".(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Utopia: With Erasmus's "The Sileni of Alcibiades." Ed. & trans. David Wootton...adding his translation of "The Sileni of Alcibiades," one of Erasmus's most important...Hence his choice of "The Sileni of Alcibiades," a particularly serious Erasmian...
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Sophocles and Alcibiades; Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 530 words
; 9780801447327 Sophocles and Alcibiades; Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature. Vickers...politics, particularly those of the controversial politician Alcibiades, indicate he was an insider involved up to his neck. Vickers...
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Pain Thinks of Alcibiades.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Ploughshares; 3/22/2003; ; 376 words
; Pain Thinks of Alcibiades Pain thinks of the sea the blackened fields the shore without daylight...body or breath Pain thinks of the sea without witness Pain thinks of Alcibiades LAURIE LAMON is Associate Professor of English at Whitworth College...
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Stellar Cat Wins by 6 In Alcibiades Stakes
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/24/1993; 259 words
; ...by Shane Sellers, led all the way to win the $200,000 Alcibiades Stakes by six lengths today at Keeneland. The daughter of...Stellar Cat gave trainer D. Wayne Lukas his fourth win in the Alcibiades. Slew Kitty Slew finished second in the field of six 2...
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Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...s equally impressive The Shock of Men: Homosexual Hermeneutics in French Writing (Stanford University Press, 1995), Alcibiades at the Door shows how figures of homosexuality, like Plato's eponymous gate crasher, can be situated in between public...
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Alcibiades
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Alcibiades The Athenian general Alcibiades (ca. 450-404 B.C.) served Athens and its enemies alike and caused damage to every state that employed him. Alcibiades was the son of Cleinias, a brilliant but unstable Athenian...
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Peloponnesian War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...arranged a peace (421), but his rival Alcibiades persuaded the Athenians to invade powerful...force a Greek city had ever assembled, Alcibiades and Nicias both had (415) commands...before the attack on Syracuse had begun, Alcibiades was recalled to Athens to face a charge...
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Socrates
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...military campaigns are attested by Alcibiades in the Symposium. He tells of...valor in battle, which allowed Alcibiades to escape when he was in a perilous...ugliness was no bar to his appeal. Alcibiades asserts in the same dialogue that...
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Nicias
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...When the expedition to Syracuse was urged by Alcibiades , Nicias tried to discourage it, but Athens nevertheless made him commander, along with Alcibiades and Lamachus. Alcibiades was soon recalled, and Lamachus died, leaving...
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Timon of Athens
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...embittered spirit is manifested in his talk with the exiled Alcibiades, the churlish philosopher Apemantus, the thieves and flatterers...When the senators of Athens, hard pressed by the attack of Alcibiades, come to entreat him to return to the city and help them...
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