In Timon of Athens, what is the name of the Athenian general?

In Timon of Athens, the Athenian general is Alcibiades.

Alcibiades appears near the beginning, middle, and end of Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton’s play. He is introduced as a military commander who asks the Athenian Senate to spare a soldier condemned to death. When the senators refuse, Alcibiades warns that their rigid justice may eventually threaten the city itself. His appeal is rejected, and he is banished from Athens.

The banishment helps drive the play’s final movement. Alcibiades gathers an army and marches against Athens, while Timon—once a wealthy man who has become a misanthropic outcast—dies apart from society. Alcibiades ultimately captures the city but promises a more measured settlement than the senators expect, restoring order while condemning the abuses that helped produce the crisis.

Readers sometimes confuse Alcibiades with Timon because Timon is the title character, or with Flavius, Timon’s loyal steward. Historically, Alcibiades was a famous Athenian statesman and general of the Peloponnesian War, but Shakespeare uses him selectively as a political and military counterweight to Timon’s personal collapse.