"Athens' Darling" tells the story of a brilliant and handsome
Athenian general who falls in love with a beautiful slave girl,
Timandra... They meet at times but she is owned by Alcibiades'
bitter enemy, Hiero, who revels in the knowledge that Alcibiades by
Athenian law, cannot take Timandra from him. It is also the story
of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, in which
Alcibiades rises to power and to lead the Athenian army. She is
still the slave of Hiero who, with his followers are plotting to
kill Alcibiades. Timandra discovers this, escapes and flees to the
man she loves to warn him.
Some events in Alcibiades' life in this book are based on
historical fact--his appeal to women, his marriage to his first
wife, the decision of the Athenians to send him to conquer Sicily,
and the rise of a faction which sought to kill him. Also factual is
his switching his allegiance to Sparta after this, his affair with
the Spartan queen Timaea, and his return to power in Athens. Some
of the characters are also actual people that lived in the 5th
Century B.C., including the general Nicias and Socrates,
Alcibiades' friend and mentor. Also factual are the plague that
struck Athens, the accepted use of brothels, the use and abuse of
slaves, and the Olympic games. What is fictional is the life of
Timandra. All that is recorded about her is that she was a slave
girl who was with Alcibiades when he died and arranged his
funeral.
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