I HAVE NEVER really understood the extraordinary magnetic charisma generated by Alcibiades, both throughout his lifetime (c. 450-404 BCE) and among the many modern scholars who have continued to be ...

Few owners and breeders have been more successful in North American racing than Godolphin, especially in recent years. Since 2021, the global racing and breeding operation has netted six Eclipse ...

Spendthrift Farm's Tommy Jo improved to 3-for-3 in capturing the $650,000 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) on opening day of the fall meet Oct. 3 at Keeneland, though only after a five-minute stewards' inquiry ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Born around 450 B.C., Alcibiades had the mixed fortune of losing his father Cleinias as a boy and becoming the ...

Spendthrift Farm’s undefeated Tommy Jo, the impressive winner of the Grade 1 Spinaway at Saratoga in her most recent start, headlines a field of six 2-year-old fillies entered Monday for Friday’s 74th ...

In 418 BC Sparta defeated its neighbor and oldest rival, Argos, a city theoretically allied to Athens. One again, hostilities began to brew. In Athens, the charismatic aristocrat Alcibiades had been ...

The race for the Republican presidential nomination has provided pundits with ample opportunity to claim that we have reached an all-time low in terms of fractiousness, divisiveness and vulgarity. Not ...

Marble statues of the Greek philosophers Socrates, right, and Plato sit in front of the Athens Academy. Socrates tried and failed to teach Alcibiades, a controversial political and military leader in ...