Of sacrilege allegedly committed during his pre expedition revelling Jumping ship on the return journey he defected to the Spartans Alcibiades soon ingratiated himself with the Spartans encouraging them to aid the Sicilians ultimately resulting in the utter destruction of the Athenian expeditionand to keep year round pressure on the Athenians He then seems to have overstepped the bounds of hospitality by sleeping with the Spartan ueen and was soon on the run again He then played a devious and dangerous game of shifting loyalties between Sparta Athens and Persia He had a hand in engineering the overthrow of democracy at Athens in favour of an oligarchy which allowed him to return from exile though.
alcibiades pdf Alcibiades MOBIOf sacrilege allegedly committed during his pre expedition revelling Jumping ship on the return journey he defected to the Spartans Alcibiades soon ingratiated himself with the Spartans encouraging them to aid the Sicilians ultimately resulting in the utter destruction of the Athenian expeditionand to keep year round pressure on the Athenians He then seems to have overstepped the bounds of hospitality by sleeping with the Spartan ueen and was soon on the run again He then played a devious and dangerous game of shifting loyalties between Sparta Athens and Persia He had a hand in engineering the overthrow of democracy at Athens in favour of an oligarchy which allowed him to return from exile though.