Alcibiades was a flamboyant Athenian playboy, politician, and general who switched allegiances between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian war.
Alcibiades was a brilliant and colorful Athenian politician with a penchant for switching sides during the Peloponnesian War. He was a student and comrade of Socrates, with whom he maintained a complex relationship.
Also, he cuckolded the King of Sparta, and he was one of the best strategists to sail the seas in the 5th century BCE. However, his flamboyant manner caused a scandal back home in Athens.
He embraced wantonness, excessive luxury, drinking, and brothel houses. He almost exclusively wore long purple robes akin to a woman and he had the planks of his ship taken out to make room for his much softer pillow-filled hammock.
His shield did not bear the traditional military insignia but was embossed with a Cupid holding a thunderbolt in its hand. Eliot], Both of his parents stemmed from prominent Athenian families. His mother, in particular, belonged to the ancient aristocratic family, the Alkmeonidai.
