Alcmeonid family, 4 , 6 , 27
death of, 12 , 22 , 170 – 77 ; family of,
Alexander the Great, 15 , 65
4 – 6 , 35 , 45 – 46 ; illegitimate son of, 21 ,
Andocides, xv–xvi, 70 n1, 71 , 79 – 80
102 – 3 ; incest gossip about, 20 , 180 ,
Andrewes, A., xvii
184 ; intellect of, 9 – 10 ; legacy of, 177 ,
Androcles, 75 – 77 ; assassination of, 75 n9,
178 , 192 – 99 ; marriage of, 20 – 21 ; as
127 ; democratic beliefs of, 93 , 114 , 135
202 Index
Antiochus, 158 – 59
Cleinias (Alcibiades’s father), 4 – 6 , 35
Antiphon, 20
Cleisthenes, 4 , 49 , 93 n10
Antisthenes, 184
Cleon, 8 , 36 , 65
Anytus, 22 – 23
Cleophon, 135 , 144 , 160 , 163
Archepiada, 191 – 92
Cloché, Paul, 181 n8
Archidamus, Spartan king, 48 , 105
Conon, 167 , 170 n5
Arginusae, battle of, 167
Corcyra (Corfu), 68 , 77 , 96
Argive alliance, 40 – 47 , 52 , 64 , 86 ,
Corinth, 40 – 41 , 43 , 56 , 96
89 – 90 , 111
Coriolanus, 19 , 24
Argos, 5 – 6 , 40 – 42 , 90 ; Epidaurus and,
Cornelius Nepos, xv, 109 n6, 162 , 169 ,
46 ; Peloponnesian War and, 40 – 41 ,
175 , 191
96 ; Sicilian expedition and, 47
Council of Five Hundred, 43 , 125 , 128 ,
Aristides, 49
130 – 31 , 136
Aristophanes, works of: Acharnians ,
Critias, 25 n15, 79 , 134 n16, 140 ,
161 ; Birds , 23 – 24 , 130 ; Clouds , 182 ;
160 n21, 181 – 83
Frogs , 163 – 65 , 167 ; Knights , 8 , 50 ;
Croiset, Maurice, 184
Lysistrata , 72 – 73 ; Wasps , 72
Cyme, 156 – 57 , 160
Aristotle, 8 , 160 n21
Cynossema, battle of, 142
Artaxerxes, Persian king, 171 – 73
Cyrus, Persian prince, 155 – 56
Athenaeus, 28 , 148 n13, 184
Cyzicus, battle of, 142 – 44 , 146
Autolycus, 3 n4
Axiochus, 80
Decelea, 100 – 102 , 132 , 146 , 151 ,
160 , 180
banishment. See ostracism
democracy, 36 – 37 , 94 , 114 – 17 , 158 ; Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques, 176 – 77
“moderate,” 124 – 25 ; threats to, 85 ,
Bengtson, H., xvi
197 – 98
Bicknell, P., 4 n8
Democrates, 23
Bloedow, E. F., 48 n11, 164 n30, 187 n17
Demosthenes (general), 99
Bowersock, Glen, 145 n9
Demosthenes (orator), 9
Budé, Guillaume, 20 n10
Diocleides, 79
Byzantium, 144 – 46
Diodorus Siculus, xv, 140 , 143 , 152 ,
159 , 160 , 169
Callias, 6 , 7 , 126 n4
Diogenes Laertius, 184
Callicles, 136 , 186 – 88
Duris of Samos, 75 n11, 147 – 49
Campistron, Jean Galbert de, 172 ,
176 n16, 192 – 93
eisangelia (right to bring suit), 71 – 72
Carthage, 56 , 60 , 68 – 69
Eleusian Mysteries, 75 , 77 , 80 – 81 ,
Chalcedon, 144 , 145
151 , 163
chariot races, 3 , 19 , 27 – 29 , 87 , 179
Elis, 42 , 43 , 47
Charmides, 80
Endios, 5 , 44 – 46 , 90 – 91 , 106 – 9
Chios, 28 , 106 – 8 , 134 , 160
ephebes, oath of the, 41 – 42
Chrysogonus, 148
Ephesus, 27 , 106 , 108 , 114 , 157 – 59
Cicero, 75 n11, 191 , 197
Ephorus, 143 n3, 147 , 171
Cleinias (Alcibiades’s cousin), 3
Epidamnus, 96
Index 203
Euboea, 106 , 132 , 144
kalos kagathos (ideal human condition), 2
Euclid of Megara, 184
Kottyto (Thracian deity), 75
euelpides (high hopes), 130
eunoia (goodwill), 194 – 95
La Fontaine, Jean de, 69
Eupatrid family, 4
Laïs, 22
Euphemus, 82
Lamachus, 61 , 77 , 83
Eupolis, 75
Lampsacus, 167 – 70
Euripides, 3 , 27 , 163 – 65
Leogoras, 79
Euripides, works of: Electra , 99 ;
Leonides, 199
Heraclides , 65 ; Orestes , 161 ;
Leontini (Sicily), 56
Phoenician Women , 135 – 36 , 187 ,
Leotychidas, 102 – 3
198 – 99 ; Trojan Women , 60
Lesbos, 28 , 105 , 106 , 108
Libya, 60 , 69
Five Thousand, council of, 131
Lichas, 114 , 132
Four Hundred, council of, 43 , 125 , 128 ,
Lysander, 154 – 59 , 167 – 70 , 173
130 – 31 , 136
Lysias, xvi, 97 , 147 , 160 , 180 , 195
Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse, 56
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 112
Gomme, A. W., xvii
Mantinea, 41 – 43 , 46 , 47 , 64
Gorgias, 195
Megacles (Alcibiades’s grandfather), 4
Gylippus, 98 – 99
Melos, 21 , 52 – 54
Menandrus, 169
Hadrian, Roman emperor, 177 , 191
Messina, 57 , 77 – 78 , 89
Hatzfeld, Jean, xiii, xvi, 146
Miletus, 6 , 108 , 114
Hellenica of Oxyrhynchus , xvi, 159
Miltiades, 166 – 67
Hermocrates, 57 – 58 , 82 , 99 , 113
Mindarus, 142 , 143
herms, affair of the, 70 – 75 , 77 , 79 – 80 ,
Montaigne, Michel de, 17 n3, 192
124 , 193
Mytilene, 54 , 62 n15
hetaereiai , 72 , 79 – 81 , 158
Hippocratic oath, 62
Napoleon Bonaparte, 65
Hipponicus, 6 , 7
Naxos, 57 , 78
Hitler, Adolf, 65 , 150 , 194
Nepos, Cornelius, 15
hubris, 24 , 194
Nicias, 29 , 48 – 49 , 101 , 112 ; as
Hyperbolus, 50 , 127 ; democratic beliefs
Alcibiades’s rival, 37 , 40 , 46 , 49 – 51 ,
of, 93 , 114 , 135 ; ostracism of, 51 , 76 ,
62 – 63 , 111 ; death of, 99 ; on Sicilian
85 – 87
expedition, 13 , 61 – 66 , 77 , 82 – 83 ,
99 – 100 ; Spartan diplomacy by, 43 , 44 ;
imperialism, 52 – 54 , 58 – 66 , 112 , 188 , 194
Thucydides on, 54 , 61 – 63 . See also
Ion of Chios, 165 n31
Peace of Nicias
Isocrates, xvi, 76 , 87 , 195 ; on
Notium, 157 – 60
Alcibiades’s chariot races, 27 , 28 ,
179 ; on Alcibiades’s exile, 90 ; on
“oath of the ephebes,” 41 – 42
Alcibiades’s treachery, 97 , 179 , 180 ;
oligarchy, 37 , 76 n12, 114 – 15 , 124 – 25 ,
family of, 93 n10
128 – 29
204 Index
ostracism, 49 – 50 ; of Alcibiades, 7 – 8 , 22 ,
67 n18; on Timandra, 173 – 74 ; on
50 – 51 , 81 – 87 , 89 – 103 ; of Hyperbolus,
Tissaphernes, 109 – 10 , 113 , 141 , 175
51 , 76 , 85 – 87 ; of Themistocles, 41 ,
Plynteria festival, 148
49 , 171 – 72
Polycrates, 182
Oxyrhynchus historian, 159
Potideia, battle of, 39
&nbs
p; proxenos (foreign consul), 5 , 47 , 92 , 93
paranomia , 30
Pylos, 39 – 40 , 43 , 45 , 92 , 93 , 101
Peace of Nicias, 40 – 41 , 48 – 49 , 101
Peloponnesian War, xi–xii, 37 – 40 , 48 ,
Rhegium (Reggio di Calabria), 57 , 77
64 , 98
Rollin, Charles, 193
Pericles, xii, 4 – 7 , 63 , 101 ; as Alcibiades’s
guardian, 5 ; on expansionism, 56 , 59 ,
Salamis, battle of, 56 , 172
65 ; as general, 37 ; on naval power,
Samos, 48 , 108 , 114 – 15 , 118 – 19 , 128 –
41 ; on omens, 71 ; successor of, 8 ;
34 ; oligarchs of, 123 – 24 , 126 – 28
Thucydides on, 36 , 37 , 84 , 131 , 144 ,
Sicilian expedition, 36 , 48 , 54 – 58 , 77 ;
161 , 188
Argos’s involvement in, 47 ; Nicias and,
Persian empire, 39 , 104 , 195 ; Sparta’s
13 , 61 – 66 , 77 , 82 – 83 , 99 ; Plutarch on,
negotiations with, 105 – 14 , 132 – 33
60 ; Sparta’s involvement with, 98 – 100 ; Persian Wars, 39
Thucydides on, 57 – 69 , 78 , 82 – 85 ,
Phaedo, 184
99 – 100
Pharnabazus, 106 , 142 – 44 , 146 , 170 – 71 ,
Socrates, xii, 32 – 34 , 39 , 167 , 172 ;
173 , 175 – 77
Alcibiades and, 10 – 12 , 24 – 25 , 139 – 40 ,
Phrynichus, 116 – 21
165 – 86 , 182 , 185 , 189 – 90 ; trial of, Pindar, 56
178 , 181 – 85
Pisander, 76 n12, 123 – 27
sophists, 6 , 9 , 183 n10, 187 , 197 – 98 ;
Plato, 140 , 178
rationalism of, 71 ; Socrates and,
Plato, works of: Alcibiades I , 9 – 10 ,
183 n10
24 – 25 , 32 – 33 , 172 – 73 , 183 – 86 , 189 ; Sophocles, works of: Oedipus Rex , 88 ,
Alcibiades II , 32 , 33 , 183 ; Apology ,
177 ; Philoctetes , 145 , 199
181 n7, 184 – 85 ; Gorgias , 25 , 136 ,
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 154
172 , 173 , 186 , 189 ; Phaedo , 7 ;
Syracuse, 56 , 69 , 82 – 83 , 98 – 100
Protagoras , 2 , 6 , 25 ; Republic , 187 –
88 ; Symposium , 1 – 3 , 10 – 13 , 25 – 26 , Teucrus, 79
185 , 188 – 90 , 192
Themistocles, 41 , 49 , 56 , 59 , 171 – 72
Plutarch, xv, 16 – 24 , 41 – 42 , 186 ; on
Theodotia of Athens, 22 n14
Alcibiades’s ambition, 36 , 102 ; on
Theophrastus, 9
Alcibiades’s chariot races, 19 , 27 ;
Theramenes, 132 , 134 n16
on Alcibiades’s death, 171 – 74 ; on
Thirty Tyrants, 125 , 170 , 175 – 76 , 181 ,
Alcibiades’s ostracism, 50 – 51 ; on
198 . See also tyranny
Alcibiades’s treachery, 90 , 91 , 94 ; on
Thourioi, 56
Alcibiades’s wealth, 7 ; on Andocides,
Thrasybulus, 128 – 29 , 157 , 160 , 170
80 n17; on Androcles, 75 ; on Duris of
Thucydides, xv, 9 , 178 , 193 – 94 , 198 ;
Samos, 147 – 48 ; on Lysander, 154 – 59 ;
on Alcibiades’s ambition, 35 – 37 ;
on Melos expedition, 54 ; on Nicias,
on Alcibiades’s chariot races, 27 ; on
50 – 51 ; on Sicilian expedition, 60 ,
Alcibiades’s scandals, 30 , 31 , 73 – 81 ,
Index 205
87 ; on Alcibiades’s treacheries, 90 – 97 ,
129 – 33 , 141 – 42 ; Plutarch on, 109 – 10 ,
108 – 22 , 126 , 132 – 33 ; on Alcibiades’s
113 , 141 , 175
wealth, 7 , 86 ; on Androcles, 75 n9; on
Tydeus, 169
Argive alliance, 42 – 47 , 111 ; on Arsaces,
tyranny, 37 , 72 – 74 , 93 , 125 , 196 .
110 ; on Endios, 106 – 8 ; on Hyperbolus, See also Thirty Tyrants
50 , 51 n16; on imperialism, 194 ; on
Melos expedition, 53 – 54 ; on Nicias,
Vichy regime, 128 , 150
54 , 61 – 63 ; on Pericles, 36 , 37 , 84 , 131 , Villon, François, 191 – 92
144 , 161 , 188 ; on Sicilian expedition,
Vlachos, A., xvi, 25 n16, 95 n15
57 – 69 , 78 , 82 – 85 , 99 – 100 ; sources
of, 137 – 39 ; on Themistocles, 172 ;
Xenophon, 159 ; on Socrates, xv, 181 ,
Xenophon and, 137 , 139 – 40
182 ; Thucydides and, 137 , 139 – 40
Timaeus, 80 n17
Xenophon, works of: Anabasis ,
Timandra, 22 , 173 – 75
155 n3, 162 ; Cyropaedia , 155 ;
Tisias, 28
Hellenica , 102 – 3 , 130 n8, 139 – 40 ,
Tissaphernes, 106 , 108 , 124 , 155 – 56 ;
144 , 162 , 178 ; Memorabilia , xv, 2 , 24 ,
Alcibiades and, 109 – 17 , 120 , 125 – 27 ,
91 , 182
Document Outline
The Life of Alcibiades Contents
Translator’s Preface
Author’s Preface
Chronology
1. Richly Endowed
2. Insults and Scandals
First Interlude: Alcibiades between Two Lifestyles 3. Political Debut: The Argive Alliance
4. The Grand Design
5. The Scandals
6. Exile: Defending Treason
7. In Asia Minor
8. With the Athenians on Samos
Second Interlude: Alcibiades between Two Historians 9. A Triumphal Return
10. Slightly More Than One Hundred Days
11. A Final Appearance
12. Repercussions
Conclusion
Index
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