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Romilly, Jacqueline de,

The life of Alcibiades : dangerous ambition and the betrayal of Athens / Jacqueline de Romilly ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. - 1 online resource. - Cornell studies in classical philology .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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

ISBN: 1501739964 9781501739972 1501739972 9781501739965

LCCN: 2018060257

Subjects--Personal Names:
Alcibiades.
Alcibiades.

Subjects--Meeting Names:
Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
To 146 B.C.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Statesmen--Greece--Athens--Biography.
Generals--Greece--Athens--Biography.
Diplomatic relations.
Generals.
Statesmen.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Greece--Foreign relations--To 146 B.C.
Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Greece.
Greece--Athens.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biography.
History.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DF230.A4

Dewey Class. No.: 938.05/092 B