The life of Alcibiades : dangerous ambition and the betrayal of Athens

The life of Alcibiades : dangerous ambition and the betrayal of Athens / Jacqueline de Romilly ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings.

"This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450-404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose...

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Main Author: Romilly, Jacqueline de (Author)
Other Authors: Rawlings, Elizabeth (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:Cornell studies in classical philology.
Subjects:
Alcibiades.
Statesmen > Greece > Athens > Biography.
Generals > Greece > Athens > Biography.
Greece > Foreign relations > To 146 B.C.
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Biographies.
History.
Uniform Title:Alcibiade.
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