Alcibiades#
Summary#
Nietzsche presents Alcibiades as one of the “marvelously incomprehensible and inexplicable beings” who emerges from an age of dissolution and racial mixing. Unlike the weak man of late culture who seeks rest and unity, Alcibiades represents those in whom contrary instincts and inherited conflicts become an additional stimulus to life, combined with mastery over self-control and self-deception. Nietzsche groups him with Caesar as among the finest examples of enigmatical men predestined for conquering and circumventing others.