Alcibiades on his Knees Before his Mistress.
The man behind it all was Alcibiades.
What Alcibiades would have said if he would thought
of the phrase was,“Let's make Athens great again!”!
Her gaze is directed at the aristocratic youth Alcibiades, who was Pericles' ward and probably Aspasia's great-nephew.
He claimed that the only reason Alcibiades was supporting the expedition was that he wanted
to profit from it financially and enhance his prestige.
Unless Alcibiades finds wisdom,
he will never be able to know his own good and evil, nor that of others, nor the affairs of states.
Alcibiades didn't have a private jet like Trump,
but he did have seven teams of four-horse chariots, which he entered in the Olympic Games, winning first, second and fourth prize.
Trump has yet to reveal his innermost thoughts about democracy,
though it may be that he, like Alcibiades, would prefer a political system in which only
the wealthy have access to power.
Like Trump, Alcibiades knew that the more he courted controversy, the more he
would grab the limelight- and the more people would listen to him when he spoke up in the Athenian Assembly, where the important issues of the day were decided by majority vote.