The mythologizing of history -- Sophocles' Antigone, Pericles and Alcibiades -- Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, Alcibiades, Cleon and Aspasia -- Sophocles' Ajax, Alcibiades and Andocides -- Sophocles' Philoctetes, Alcibiades, Andocides and Pericles -- Alcibiades in exile : Euripides' Cyclops -- Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Alcibiades and Critias -- Critias and Alcibiades : Euripides' Bacchae -- Alcibiades and Melos : Thucydides 5.84-116 -- Thucydides on tyrannicides : not a "digression" -- Alcibiades and Persia (and more Thucydidean "digressions") -- Alcibiades and Critias in the Gorgias: Plato's "fine satire."