He was generally known as the Pest Alcibiades, and was especially at home in the salons of the Protestant magnates.
In the dialogue, Socrates converses with a young, ambitious Alcibiades about Themistocles and argues that Alcibiades is unprepared for a career in politics since he has failed to "care for himself" in such a way as to avoid thinking that he knows more than what he actually knows on matters of the most importance.
Later writers assign as a reason that Agis suspected Alcibiades of having slept with his queen, Timaea (and fathered Leotychides).
Ancient Athenian general Alcibiades, after the naval victory at Cyzicus, possibly built a custom station for ships coming from Black Sea on a small rock in front of Chrysopolis (today's üsküdar).
In several of Plato's dialogues, the philosopher Socrates is revealed to be a veteran of the Battle of Potidaea, where he saved the life of Alcibiades (Symposium 219e-221b).
His brother George took up the regency of Brandenburg-Kulmbach until Albert II Alcibiades came of age in 1541.
Alcibiades Antonio Acosta Agudelo (June 6, 1965 in Soledad, Atlántico, Colombia) is a Colombian folk singer.
Authors who have recently employed it include George Santayana, in his eminent Dialogues in Limbo (1926, 2nd ed. 1948; this work also includes such historical figures as Alcibiades, Aristippus, Avicenna, Democritus, and Dionysius the Younger as speakers), and Iris Murdoch, who included not only Socrates and Alcibiades as interlocutors in her work Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986), but featured a young Plato himself as well.
He also painted 'The Treaty of Amiens,' for which he received the prize of 12,000 francs in the competition in the year XI; 'The Death of the Father of Louis XVI.,' exhibited in 1817; 'Thrasybulus re-establishing the Democratic Government at Athens,' which passed into England, 'The Death of Alcibiades,' 'The Birth of Venus,' 'The Toilet of Venus,' and portraits of many of the men of mark of the time.
Syrgiannes's ambition, inveterate plotting, and multiple betrayals made him one of the darkest figures of the era in the eyes of both contemporary and later historians: the 14th-century historian Nikephoros Gregoras compared his flight to Serbia with Themistocles's flight to the Persians, while Donald Nicol likened him to Alcibiades and Angeliki Laiou called him "the most evil presence" of the civil war.
415 Hermai statues are mutilated in Athens, Alcibiades accused, asks for inquiry, told to set sail for battle (Sicilian Expedition), is condemned to death in absentia, he defects to Sparta.