alcibiades

noun

1. 450?–404 b.c., Athenian politician and general.

noun

1. 450–404 bc, Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War: brilliant, courageous, and unstable, he defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the Athenian victories at Abydos (411) and Cyzicus (410)