Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm
Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm
ISBN: 978-0-674-31058-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press
"A rich and rewarding biography." —New Criterion
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. Nemesis tells the story of his extraordinary life and the turbulent world that he set out to conquer.
Outraged by Alcibiades’ celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought every chance to undermine him. Facing a capital charge of impiety, Alcibiades escaped to the enemy, Sparta. There he traded military intelligence for safety until, suspected of seducing a Spartan queen, he was forced to flee again—this time to Greece’s long-term foes, the Persians. Miraculously, though, he engineered a recall to Athens as Supreme Commander, but—suffering a reversal—he took flight to Thrace, where he lived as a warlord. Finally in Anatolia, tracked by enemies, he died naked and alone in a hail of arrows.
David Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades’ adventures against a backdrop of cultural splendor and international chaos, providing a spellbinding account of a life that has gripped historians, storytellers, and artists for more than two thousand years.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
