Tag: Rake’s

With the overthrow of the oligarchy in Athens, the democrats were restored to power. They promised to avoid reprisals against ordinary citizens who had, willingly or unwillingly, collaborated with the Thirty in their brutal regime. Not all of those associated with the regime felt secure. One of thos...

The story of Socrates, as well as the story of Athens, is inextricably bound up with the fate of Alcibiades, the golden boy of the Golden Age. Alcibiades’ rise and fall, and his second rise and fall, propelled Athens ever on like some sort of tragic destiny. In 420 BC Athens was basking i...