IX. FIGHTING IN ARKADIA 116 BOOK II X. STRATEGOS 131 XI. MUTILATION OF THE STATUES 148 XII. SICILIAN EXPEDITION 156 XIII. RECALL AND REVENGE 169 XIV. A SYBARITE BANQUET 185 XV. CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY ATHENS 194 XVI. CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY SPARTA 214 XVII. FLIGHT TO MAGNESIA 229 XVIII. LIFE AT MAGNESIA 245 XIX. COMMANDER OF ATHENIAN FORCES AT SAMOS 259 XX. THE GREAT TEMPTATION 273 BOOK III XXI. SEA FIGHTS AND IMPRISONMENT 292 XXII. ESCAPE AND SUCCESSES 314 XXIII. RETURN TO ATHENS 340 XXIV. ELEUSIS 358 XXV. DISAPPOINTMENT 368 XXVI. DEPOSED 381 XXVII. FIGHTING IN THRACE 391 XXVIII. AIGOS POTAMOI 405 XXIX. SURRENDER OF ATHENS 415 XXX. REFUGE IN PHRYGIA 425 XXXI. THE CLOSING SCENE 436 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALKIBIADES Book I CHAPTER I ‘Whence can we know that which is to be? Veiled in deep darkness is the life of mortals.’ ANACREON. IN the early morning of a spring day in Greece, under a heaven of such a blue as one can seldom see elsewhere, leaning from a window of one of the noblest houses in Athens, looking sometimes down on the town that lay beneath—awaking to its daily life of work and thought and happiness—or gazing up at the pure sky, with the just finished Parthenon standing out against it, imagine a boy of more than even Grecian beauty. His light and slightly curling hair was blown back from a lofty forehead, his clear-cut, perfect features, and the healthy hue upon his cheeks, resembling the pure white marble of the temple and the glow of the resplendent morning.