Of course, we shouldn’t overlook Plutarch, whose 2nd century AD biography of Alcibiades supplies us with tremendously valuable information. His assessment of Alcibiades is also a very measured one. Like Thucydides, Plutarch acknowledges the deceptions and chicanery of Alcibiades but also allows that he was a man of enormous talent, enterprise, and energy. Plutarch intended his readers to emulate the lives of his “famous Greeks and Romans,” and he obviously saw some things worth imitating in the life of Alcibiades.