This entrance of Alcibiades’ at Athens is also emblemized by his appearance in Plato’s Symposium written in 380 B.C., as he disrupts the ladder of love. In Plato’s Republic (375 B.C.), the perfect community that he envisions cannot come to fruition because people are either too entrenched in the ways of nomos or in the ways of physis, the natural world and rule of the strong man. The Bacchae completed by Euripides in 406 B.C., has a community completely destroyed by Dionysius showing that Greek tragedy lacks in any sense of justice or even injustice because the destruction of a whole community occurs without reason. The commonality that exists amongst all of these works is how they are representative of what Greek tragedy truly is, an unreasonable disruption to a person or entire community’s way of life; these works also provide insight into understanding what happened to Athens during the Peloponnesian
This entrance of Alcibiades’ at Athens is also emblemized by his appearance in Plato’s Symposium written in 380 B.C., as he disrupts the ladder of love. In Plato’s Republic (375 B.C.), the perfect community that he envisions cannot come to fruition because people are either too entrenched in the ways of nomos or in the ways of physis, the natural world and rule of the strong man. The Bacchae completed by Euripides in 406 B.C., has a community completely destroyed by Dionysius showing that Greek tragedy lacks in any sense of justice or even injustice because the destruction of a whole community occurs without reason. The commonality that exists amongst all of these works is how they are representative of what Greek tragedy truly is, an unreasonable disruption to a person or entire community’s way of life; these works also provide insight into understanding what happened to Athens during the Peloponnesian