In his dialogues, Plato mentions an enigmatic figure who stands out both for her wisdom and her gender: a woman named Diotima of Mantinea. She was a priestess who instructed none other than Socrates ...

Trump’s approach resembles that of Athenian statesman Alcibiades. The ancient Athenian tended to unsettle the people around him because he ignored and even deviated from customs, in a manner akin to a ...

Yet, there have been instances where people were hexed publicly. The most notable example of this was the public cursing of General Alcibiades. Rumor spread that Alcibiades, in a drunken stupor, had ...

She paid $79.76 to win on a $2 bet. Multiple G2 winner Tarifa, ridden by Florent Geroux, finished second after getting off to a slow start, with G1 Alcibiades Stakes winner Candied and Irad Ortiz ...

We just have to trust his contemporaries that it felt like ‘the opening of the gate of heaven’. This causes problems for a biographer of Alcibiades. On the face of it, the man was utterly insufferable ...