Cléon
Subtitle: le guerrier d'Athéna
By: Philippe Lafargue
Series: Scripta antiqua -- 52; Scripta antiqua -- 52.
Publisher: Ausonius
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bordeaux
Language: fre
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9782356130846
Subjects: Politicians; Biography; History
Description: A re-evaluation of the political work of Cleon, the Athenian political leader during the first years of the Peloponnesian War. Contemporary writers like Thucydides or Aristophanes portrayed Cleon as a corrupt, venal demagogue and warmonger. This book, however, attempts to leave aside ideological and moral bias and reconstruct Cleon's historical context, allowing him to be considered in a more positive light: as a leader whose political goals hardly differed from Pericles'.