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. He was also a serial
traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the
Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary
life and the turbulent world that Alcibiades set out to conquer.
David Stuttard recreates ancient Athens at the height of its glory
as he follows Alcibiades from childhood to political power.
Outraged by Alcibiades’ celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought
every chance to undermine him. Eventually, 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. At last in Anatolia, tracked by his enemies, he
died naked and alone in a hail of arrows. As he follows
Alcibiades’ journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from
mainland Greece to Syracuse, Sardis, and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves
together the threads of Alcibiades’ adventures against a backdrop
of cultural splendor and international chaos. Navigating often
contradictory evidence, Nemesis provides a coherent and
spellbinding account of a life that has gripped historians,
storytellers, and artists for more than two thousand years.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2018 |
| Authors: |
David Stuttard
|
| Dimensions: |
156 x 235 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
372 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-66044-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-674-66044-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780674660441 |
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