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

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

"A translation of a biography of the Athenian general Alcibiades by Jacqueline de Romilly, a French scholar and member of the French Academy"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Romilly, Jacqueline de (Author)
Other Authors:	Rawlings, Elizabeth (Translator)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English French
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:	Cornell studies in classical philology.
Subjects:	Alcibiades. Alcibiades To 146 B.C. Statesmen > Greece > Athens > Biography. Generals > Greece > Athens > Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Military. Diplomatic relations Generals Statesmen Greece > Foreign relations > To 146 B.C. Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. Grèce > Relations extérieures > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C. Grèce > Histoire > 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse) Greece Greece > Athens Greece, Sparta, Persia, Socrates. Biographies History
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Table of Contents:

Richly endowed
Insults and scandals
First pause : Alcibiades between two lifestyles
Political debut : the Argive alliance
The grand design
The scandals
Exile : defending treason
In Asia Minor
With the Athenians on Samos
Second pause : Alcibiades between two historians
A triumphal return
Slightly more than one hundred days
A final appearance
Repercussions.