From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Sun 26 Jun 1994 - 19:44:44 EEST
Alcibiades, for what it's worth, was a player character, a Wargamer (per
Fourfold Path), and a Socratic Illuminate. It's all laid out in Plutarch,
Xenophon, Thucydides, etc. He was the Arkat of the Peloponnesian War.
I'll lend my weighty academic backing to the thesis that personal devotion to the deity was *far* less important in real-world ancient religion than the correct performance of rituals. So making the former into a Western quirk, the latter into the theistic norm, as Paul (I believe) suggested, seems reasonable to me.
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