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451 |
birth |
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447 |
death of his father, Clinias, killed at the Battle of Coronea in Boeotia |
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Alcibiades brought up by his guardian and distant relative, Pericles, who died in 430 |
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dissolute youth |
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432 |
fought at Battle of Potidaea, where Socrates saved his life |
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424 |
fought at Battle of Delium, where he saved Socrates' life |
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422 |
death of Cleon; rise of Hyperbolus as demagogue; Alcibiades becomes leading politician advocating war in opposition to Nicias |
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420 |
steered Athens into an anti-Spartan alliance with Argos, Elis, and Mantineia |
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418 |
alliance defeated by Sparta |
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417 |
Hyperbolus attempts to ostracize Alcibiades; Alcibiades joins forces with Nicias; Hyperbolus ostracized; succeeded by Androcles as demagogue |
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416 |
entered seven chariots in Olympic Games and won first, second, and fourth places |
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415 |
appointed commander, along with Nicias and Lamachus, of Sicilian Expedition |
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mutilation of Herms; Alcibiades charged; Androcles ensures that fleet sails with charge unresolved |
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Alcibiades recalled; condemned to death in absentia; escapes and goes to Sparta |
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413 |
advised Spartans to send general to help Syracusans; also to fortify Decelea in Attica |
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seduced wife of Spartan king Agis II, while Agis at Decelea |
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412 |
took refuge with Tissaphernes in Sardis |
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411 |
recalled by Athenian fleet at Samos |
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411-408 |
Athenian victories in the Hellespont |
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407 |
returned to Athens; appointed commanderin-chief of all land and sea forces |
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led Eleusinian procession by road despite Spartan occupation of Decelea |
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406 |
voluntary exile to fortified domain at Bisanthé, in Thracian Chersonesus |
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405 |
Athenian fleet defeated at Aegospotami; fall of Athens |
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404 |
took refuge in Phrygia in northwestern Asia Minor with Persian governor Pharnabazus |
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murdered |
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