Alcibiades
Athenian statesman
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He switched sides three times in the same war — Athens to Sparta to Persia and back — each time bringing the strategic blueprint that nearly broke his previous employer.
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Alcibiades was the last of the Alcmaeonidae, an Athenian general who entered the second half of the Peloponnesian War pushing for the Sicilian Expedition. When enemies in Athens charged him with sacrilege, he fled to Sparta and turned adviser, proposing the capture of Decelea and fomenting revolts that crippled Athens. Sparta made enemies of him too, so he defected to Persia and counseled the satrap Tissaphernes until Athenian allies engineered his recall. Back in Athens he commanded a string of victories that brought Sparta to the bargaining table, favoring treachery and negotiation over sieg…
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