Alcibiades
Family: Athenians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 17
In Book 3, Chapter 17, near Ephesus, Lysander defeated the Athenian galleys commanded by Alcibiades’ pilot, Antiochus.
By Book 7, Chapter 9, Alcibiades was acting with Areus against the Achæans: they brought charges against them before the Roman Senate. The Achæans sentenced the two to death on their return from Rome, but Appius’s council declared that they had committed no crime against the Achæans. In the same chapter, Appius’s suite jeered at Lycortas’ speech, and the Achæans detested Alcibiades and Areus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Lysander defeated Antiochus and Alcibiades’ Athenian galleys near Ephesus.(Book 3 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Ephesus)
- With: Lysander Antiochus (pilot of Alcibiades)
- “the one near Ephesus when he defeated Antiochus, the pilot of Alcibiades, and the Athenian gallies”
- Areus and Alcibiades accused the Achæans before the Roman Senate.(Book 7 · Chapter 9)
- With: Areus (son of Acrotatus)
- “Further charges still were brought against the Achæans by Areus and Alcibiades”
- The Achæans sentenced Areus and Alcibiades to death.(Book 7 · Chapter 9)
- With: Areus (son of Acrotatus)
- “And the Achæans on their return from Rome sentenced them to death in their Council.”
- Appius’s council declared Areus and Alcibiades innocent and permitted Spartan envoys to visit Rome.(Book 7 · Chapter 9)
- With: Appius Areus (son of Acrotatus)
- “passed a vote that Areus and Alcibiades had committed no crime against the Achæans, and allowed the Lacedæmonians to send envoys to Rome”
Book 3 · Chapter 17
- with Antiochus (pilot of Alcibiades) (Antiochus was Alcibiades' pilot.) “Antiochus, the pilot of Alcibiades”
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- rivals with Lysander “For when Alcibiades had a strong Athenian fleet in the neighbourhood of Ionia, most of the Ionians paid their court to him, and there is a brazen bust of Alcibiades in the temple of Hera among the Samians. But when the Athenian fleet was taken at Ægos-potamoi, then the Samians erected this statue of Lysander at Olympia”
Book 7 · Chapter 9
- with Nabis (Nabis exiled Alcibiades.) “And further charges still were brought against the Achæans by Areus and Alcibiades, who were held in great repute at Sparta, but who did not act well to the Achæans: for when they were exiled by Nabis the Achæans had kindly received them, and after the death of Nabis had restored them to Sparta contrary to the wish of the Lacedæmonian people.”
- with Appius (Alcibiades accompanied Appius as a member of his suite.) “But this embassy was not likely to please the Achæans, inasmuch as in Appius’ suite were Areus and Alcibiades, whom the Achæans detested at this time.”
- with Lycortas (Alcibiades was a member of Appius’ suite, which mocked Lycortas’ speech.) “But Appius and his suite jeered at Lycortas’ speech”
Book 9 · Chapter 32
- with Antiochus (pilot of Alcibiades) (Antiochus was Alcibiades' pilot.) “Watching when Alcibiades was absent from the fleet, he enticed his pilot Antiochus to think he could cope with the Lacedæmonian fleet, and when he sailed out against them boldly and confidently, defeated him not far from the city of the Colophonians.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.