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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Pericles, Alcibiades, Agathocles of Syracuse, Epaminondas, Alexander I of Epirus, Agesilaus II, Hiero I of Syracuse, Nearchus, Pelopidas, Timoleon, Gelo, Gorgidas, Hephaestion, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Nicias, Cleomenes III, Philopoemen, Cimon, Archytas, Eumenes, Stasanor, Mindarus, Timotheus, Leosthenes, Thimbron, Lamachus, Agis III, Leptines of Syracuse, Hicetas, Taxiles, Diaeus, Hermocrates, Eudemus, Diopeithes, Eumenes II, Pammenes of Thebes, Hieronymus of Cardia, Gylippus, Laches, Phoenix of Tenedos, Archidamus III, Menon IV of Pharsalus, Socrates of Achaea, Telesphorus, Hippocrates of Athens, Nicarchus, Lysicles, Alcmaeon, son of Megacles, Thorax of Lacedaemonia, Agasias of Arcadia, Brachyllas, Agetas, Cycliadas, Timasitheus of Lipara, Gylis, Eupolemus, Alexander of Trichonium, Cleombrotus I, Balacrus, Eperatus, Lydiadas of Megalopolis, Alexander of Rhodes, Agatharchus of Syracuse, Alexicles, Philoces, Alexamenus of Aetolia, Xenias of Arcadia, Phoebidas, Alexarchus of Corinth, Perdiccas, Aristaenos of Megalopolis, Menedemus, Leptines II, Diphridas, Leontichus, Megacles of Epirus, Xenarchos, Autocles, son of Tolmaeus, Aristomachos of Argos, Aegialeas, Eualcides, Hyperbatas, Margos, Timoxenos, Dioedas. Excerpt: Alcibiades, son of Clinias, from the deme of Scambonidae (; Greek: , transliterated Alkibiad s Kleiniou Skamb nid s; c. 450-404 BC), was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was the last famous member of his mother's aristocratic family, the Alcmaeonidae, which fell from prominence after the Peloponnesian War. He played a major role in the second half of that conflict as a strategic advisor, military commander, and politician. During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his political allegiance on several occasions. In his native Athens in the early 410s BC, he advocated a...
