Gargantua and Pantagruel
In medieval and Renaissance works such as the Canterbury Tales, Erasmus's adage "The Sileni of Alcibiades", Castiglione's "Book of the Courtier", Rabelais's "Gargantua and Pantagruel", Montaigne's Essays, Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", and Thomas Otway's tragedy "Alcibiades", Alcibiades is presented as a military commander and student of Socratic teaching.