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Subject(s)

• Alcibiades [Browse]
• Statesmen—Greece—Athens—Biography [Browse]
• Generals—Greece—Athens—Biography [Browse]
• Greece—Foreign relations—To 146 B.C. [Browse]
• Greece—History—Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. [Browse]

Translator

• Rawlings, Elizabeth [Browse]

Series

Cornell studies in classical philology [More in this series]

Summary note

"A translation of a biography of the Athenian general Alcibiades by Jacqueline de Romilly, a French scholar and member of the French Academy"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Richly endowed
• Insults and scandals
• First pause : Alcibiades between two lifestyles
• Political debut : the Argive alliance
• The grand design
• The scandals
• Exile : defending treason
• In Asia Minor
• With the Athenians on Samos
• Second pause : Alcibiades between two historians
• A triumphal return
• Slightly more than one hundred days
• A final appearance
• Repercussions.

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ISBN

• 9781501719752 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 1501719750

LCCN

2018059296

OCLC

1078886858

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