How Did Lucydides Influence Socrates

Alcibiades (450-404 BC) was an Athenian politician and military commander. He was wealthy and born to the statesman Pericles. Alcibiades was one of the main reasons that Athens had lost the Peloponnesian War to Sparta. He was a general during the time of this war occurrence. He acted as a military commander, a politician and a strategic advisor in total. Alcibiades was also a pupil of Socrates. By the time Alcibiades was 30 he had given up the intellectual integrity that Socrates had given him for quite the opposite of what Socrates believed in, politics. While Alcibiades and Socrates' relationship never developed beyond teacher and pupil, Alcibiades, a main conspirator to over throw the democracy to be able to return to Athens after fleeing to Sparta to evade criminal charges, attempted many times to seduce Socrates into a romantic relationship. Though had failed to seduce Socrates into a physical relationship, it was well known that there was a close bond between these men. Alcibiades was much like Socrates. Alcibiades admired Socrates like stated above. Socrates was found to have attraction and relations to teenage boys which was a contributing factor within his conviction. Alcibiades did not help with this. It was then later found that Alcibiades did in fact feel some shame in his

Alcibiades turned out to be the complete opposite of what Socrates had taught and stood for. He turned into a political figure which went on the complete opposite of what Socrates had taught. Critias became a dictator within Athens during the time of The Thirty Tyrants. As a matter of fact, Critias was the most powerful member of the Thirty as well. As noted by the I.F. Stone interview, he was "... the bloodiest dictator Athens had ever known, a pupil of Socrates at one time, and a cousin of Plato's." Socrates reputation suffered from his association with Critias as