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How to Be Good: Seeking Virtue with Massimo Pigliucci

Classical Wisdom Speaks

CHAPTER

Socrates and Alcibiades

Alcibiades was Socrates' student and rumored lover, although that rumor apparently is not true. Alcibiades turned out to have a major hand in the fall of Athens over the next 20 years or so. He had a very high opinion of himself, which of course was justified by his accomplishments in life even early on. And he's really into self-aggrandizing and this request for glory and all that sort of stuff.

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