Suggested Readings

Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho"), Naples Archeological Museum

Alcibiades argued for libertarianism. In Xenophon’s Memorabilia Socratis, there’s an unusual mini dialogue, in which he portrays the young aristocrat Alcibiades using the Socratic Method against his guardian, the great Athenian statesman, Pericles. Pericles was the leading champion of the Democrat faction. Alcibiades seemed to want to embarrass the older statesman by catching him in a contradiction. His argument i...