Editing Demagogue (section)

====Alcibiades====
[[Alcibiades]] convinced the people of [[Athens]] to attempt to conquer [[Sicily]] during the [[Peloponnesian War]], with disastrous results. He led the [[Athenian assembly]] to support making him commander by claiming victory would come easily, appealing to Athenian vanity, and appealing to action and courage over deliberation. Alcibiades's expedition might have succeeded if he had not been denied command by the political maneuvers of his rivals.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kagan|first1=Donald|title=The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0801499401|page=185|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbJCHAOSIV4C&pg=PA185|language=en|year=1991|access-date=2020-10-25|archive-date=2021-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719170917/https://books.google.com/books?id=BbJCHAOSIV4C&pg=PA185|url-status=live}}</ref>