Nemesis - Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens' Golden Age. 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. David Stuttard tells a spellbinding story of Alcibiades' life and the turbulent world he set out to conquer.

About the author

David Stuttard is an independent scholar, theater director, and Fellow of Goodenough College who has written more than ten books about ancient Greece, including Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens.

Summary

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens's Golden Age. 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. David Stuttard tells a spellbinding story of Alcibiades's life and the turbulent world he set out to conquer.

Product details

• Authors: David Stuttard, Stuttard David
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780674660441
• ISBN: 978-0-674-66044-1
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Biography: historical, political and military, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Ancient Greece; Aristophanes; Athenians; Chithrafarna; Farnavaz II; Ionia; Nicias; Peloponnesian War; Pericles; Persia; Persians; Plato; Samos; Sicily; Sparta; Spartans; Syracuse; Thrace; Thracians