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Nemesis

Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

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Nemesis

Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

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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.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780674919686
Topic
Geschichte
Subtopic
Historische Biographien

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Maps
  7. Family Tree
  8. Introduction. Pinning Down Proteus
  9. Prologue. A Family Divided
  10. 1. Rearing the Lion Cub
  11. 2. Coming of Age
  12. 3. Unbowed in Battle
  13. 4. Stirring the Hornets’ Nest
  14. 5. Courting the Hydra
  15. 6. Between Scylla and Charybdis
  16. 7. Sleeping with the Enemy
  17. 8. In a Paradise Garden
  18. 9. Trading Places
  19. 10. Ruling the Waves
  20. 11. Dog Days
  21. 12. Nemesis
  22. Epilogue. The Shadow of the Dead
  23. Notes
  24. Timeline
  25. Acknowledgements
  26. Index