Title: The life of Alcibiades : dangerous ambition and the betrayal of Athens /
Authors: Romilly, Jacqueline de; Rawlings, Elizabeth
Year: 2019
Subjects: Alcibiades; Alcibiades; Statesmen Greece Athens Biography; Generals Greece Athens Biography.; Diplomatic relations; Generals; Statesmen; Greece Foreign relations; Greece History; Greece; Greece Athens
Abstract: "A translation of a biography of the Athenian general Alcibiades by Jacqueline de Romilly, a French scholar and member of the French Academy"--
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.