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No Athenian of a later period needed to be told of the vanities and fopperies of Alcibiades, any more than the elder generation needed to have described to them the personality of Pericles.
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Editor's note · Context
Wilson asserts that Athenians were intimately familiar with their leaders, which shaped their political landscape.
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