like, lets say you're doing a time travel story. you want someone lots of people know, someone famous and with a lot of emotion behind the man; but you also want someone it's fun to think about doing time crimes so not someone who committed Horrific War Crimes
who's the best combination of being a "Big Evil Guy" while also being just extremely cool to think about and not THAT horrific historically?
I vote for Alcibiades, the notoriously wayward and treacherous Athenian politician who switched sides a couple times during the Peloponnesian civil war and was finally murdered in Phrygia under disputed circumstances. Imagine what that guy could have done with a time machine ~Chara
