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Athenian general and statesman (c. – BC)

For other uses, see Alcibiades (disambiguation).

Alcibiades (AL-sib-EYE-ə-deez; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιβιάδης; c. – BC) was an Athenian statesman and general. The last of the Alcmaeonidae, he played a major role in the second half of the Peloponnesian War as a strategic advisor, military commander, and politician, but subsequently fell from prominence.

During the course of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades changed his political allegiance several times. In his native Athens in the early s BC, he advocated an aggressive foreign policy and was a prominent proponent of the Sicilian Expedition.

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After his political enemies brought charges of sacrilege against him, he fled to Sparta, where he served as a strategic adviser, proposing or supervising several major campaigns against Athens. However, Alcibiades made powerful enemies in Sparta too, and defected to Persia. There he served as an adviser to the satrapTissaphernes until Ath