Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Life of AlcibiadesCondition: NewSubtitle: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of AthensISBN-10: 1501719750EAN: 9781501719752ISBN: 9781501719752Publisher: Cornell University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/15/2019Description: 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 to democracy. As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly documents, Alcibiades's life is one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. Born into a wealthy and powerful family in Athens, Alcibiades was a student of Socrates and disciple of Pericles, and he seemed destined to dominate the political life of his city—and his tumultuous age. Romilly shows, however, that he was too ambitious. Haunted by financial and sexual intrigues and political plots, Alcibiades was exiled from Athens, sentenced to death, recalled to his homeland, only to be exiled again. He defected from Athens to Sparta and from Sparta to Persia and then from Persia back to Athens, buffeted by scandal after scandal, most of them of his own making. A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is also a strikingly modern figure, whose seductive celebrity and dangerous ambition anticipated current crises of leadership.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Jacqueline de RomillyTranslator: Elizabeth Trapnell RawlingsContributor: Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings (Translated by)Genre: HistoryBook Series: Cornell Studies in Classical PhilologyTopic: Ancient HistoryItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 907gRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Life of Alcibiades
Title: The Life of Alcibiades
Subtitle: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens
ISBN-10: 1501719750
EAN: 9781501719752
ISBN: 9781501719752
Release Date: 10/15/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings
Contributor: Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings (Translated by)
Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
Book Title: Life of Alcibiades : Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens
Number of Pages: 228 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Military / Ancient, Ancient / Greece, International Relations / General, Political, Historical, Military
Publication Year: 2019
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jacqueline De Romilly
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology Ser.
Format: Hardcover
