2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Athenian statesman and general — the most brilliant and disastrous figure of his generation — who was Socrates's student/admirer, led Athens into the disastrous Sicilian Expedition, defected to Sparta, became a Persian ally, and returned to Athens before being murdered — making him for René Girard the supreme case of mimetic desire's destructiveness.
Socrates's wife — famous in antiquity as a shrew and nag — who appears in Plato's Phaedo at Socrates's execution and in Xenophon's Memorabilia — and whose reputation for bad temper Socrates himself supposedly cultivated as a philosophical exercise in patience.