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Auteur(s) : Stuttard, David
Titre(s) : Nemesis [Texte imprimé] : Alcibiades and the fall of Athens / David Stuttard
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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's
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's journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from mainland Greece to Syracuse,
Sardis, and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades's 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 2,000 years.
Sujet(s) : Alcibiade (0450?-0404 av. J.-C.)
Grèce -- 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674660441. - ISBN 0674660447
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455246300
Notice n° :
FRBNF45524630
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Table des matières : Introduction: Pinning down Proteus ; Prologue: A family divided ; Rearing the lion
cub ; Coming of age ; Unbowed in battle ; Stirring the hornets' nest ; Courting
the hydra ; SNAFU: between Scylla and Charybdis ; Sleeping with the enemy ; In
a paradise garden ; Trading places ; Ruling the waves ; Dog days ; Nemesis ;
Epilogue: The shadow of the dead.
