Nemesis : Alcibiades and the fall of Athens /

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stuttard, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Alcibiades.
Alcibiades
431-404 B.C.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Grèce > Histoire > 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse)
Greece
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Pinning down Proteus
  • Prologue: A family divided
  • Rearing the lion cub
  • Coming of age
  • Unbowed in battle
  • Stirring the hornets' nest
  • Courting the hydra
  • SNAFU: between Scylla and Charybdis
  • Sleeping with the enemy
  • In a paradise garden
  • Trading places
  • Ruling the waves
  • Dog days
  • Nemesis
  • Epilogue: The shadow of the dead.

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