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Author : Plutarch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Nicias and Alcibiades written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarch
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarch
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Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book Six of Plutarch's Greek Lives: Nicias. Alcibiades written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521083052
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Studies in Fifth Century Thought and Literature written by Adam Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-07-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three children try to catch an escaped cat.
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467241
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition written by Donald Kagan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.
Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674919661
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Nemesis written by David Stuttard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080146725X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition written by Donald Kagan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314313062
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades written by Plutarch and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1802067299
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Rise And Fall of Athens written by Plutarch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall. His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past, and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation, fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola, now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian, 'On the Malice of Herodotus'.
Author : Simon Verdegem
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058677605
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades written by Simon Verdegem and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the second century C.E., Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book off ers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the moral program of the Parallel Lives. Built upon the narratological distinction between story and text, Simon Verdegem's analysis, which involves detailed comparisons with other Plutarchan works (especially the Lives of Nicias and Lysander) and several key texts in the Alcibiades tradition (e.g., Plato, Thucydides, and Xenophon), demonstrates how Plutarch carefully constructed his story and used a wide range of narrative techniques to create a complex Life that raises interesting questions about the relation between private morality and the common good.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020632938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Six Of Plutarch's Greek Lives written by Plutarch and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch was a prolific writer and his Greek Lives are some of his most famous works. This book contains six of his biographical sketches, focusing on Nicias and Alcibiades, two influential figures in ancient Greek history. The book provides valuable insights into their lives, politics, and legacies, and it is a great resource for history students and enthusiasts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Plutarch
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Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter M. Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131774683X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Alcibiades (Routledge Revivals) written by Walter M. Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alcibiades, first published in 1989, one of the most colourful and controversial figures of fifth-century Athens is presented in a sympathetic light. The author sets out to demonstrate how, in his manipulation of the Spartan representatives in 420 BC, in his successful formation of an Athenian-Argive alliance, and in his plan for the conquest of Syracuse, Alcibiades developed a style of leadership that was characterised by audacity, ingenuity and skilful diplomacy. Further, his outstanding generalship during the Hellespontine War prompts speculation on how the Sicilian expedition might have ended had he also been in command. In many respects the story of Alcibiades is the history of Athens in the twilight of its power; Alcibiades succeeds in constructing a continuous narrative of his political career without duplicating more conventional accounts, always focussing on his involvement in the course of the Peloponnesian War and his troubled relationship with his Athenian compatriots.
Author : Steven Forde
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745786
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Ambition to Rule written by Steven Forde and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fresh examination of Thucydides' treatment of Alcibiades in his History of the Peloponnesian War, Alcibiades' significance in the History, and his relation to Thucydides' political themes.
Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691190151
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book How to Think about War written by Thucydides and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides’s History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war Why do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political thinkers, and military leaders have read the eloquent and shrewd speeches in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War for profound insights into military conflict, diplomacy, and the behavior of people and countries in times of crisis. How to Think about War presents the most influential and compelling of these speeches in an elegant new translation by classicist Johanna Hanink, accompanied by an enlightening introduction, informative headnotes, and the original Greek on facing pages. The result is an ideally accessible introduction to Thucydides’s long and challenging History. Thucydides intended his account of the clash between classical Greece’s mightiest powers—Athens and Sparta—to be a “possession for all time.” Today, it remains a foundational work for the study not only of ancient history but also contemporary politics and international relations. How to Think about War features speeches that have earned the History its celebrated status—all of those delivered before the Athenian Assembly, as well as Pericles’s funeral oration and the notoriously ruthless “Melian Dialogue.” Organized by key debates, these complex speeches reveal the recklessness, cruelty, and realpolitik of Athenian warfighting and imperialism. The first English-language collection of speeches from Thucydides in nearly half a century, How to Think about War takes readers straight to the heart of this timeless thinker.
Author : R. N. K. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648794738
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Alcibiades written by R. N. K. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Alcibiades commences with Alcibiades as teenager being brought up on the Pericles Estate under the guardianship of Pericles' brother, Ariphron, his teacher Zopyrus and mentor Socrates. It tells of his rise to prominence in Athens as an influential orator, statesman and hoplite in the Athenian military. Having survived the plague and at the age of thirty, Alcibiades is made a general and proposes an expedition to Sicily to expand the Empire to maintain Athens' security and to preserve the democracy in the face of the Spartans. Over one hundred triremes are prepared for war with Alcibiades, Nicias and Lamachus as co generals. On the eve of their departure, charges, which were later deemed false, were brought against Alcibiades resulting in him being recalled to Athens to face trial leaving Nicias in charge of the expedition, which had disastrous consequences for Athens.It tells of Alcibiades' time in Sparta advising King Pleistoanax where had he a son to a Queen of Sparta and his time in the palace of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes advising him on all Greek matters.Alcibiades is recalled as a general with Athens' major Aegean fleet on the island of Samos and after securing Athens' security triumphantly returns to Athens and is made head of the military in the war with Sparta.Alcibiades did not lose any battles in which he was the Commander.
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Author : Thucydides
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Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (639 download)
Download or read book The speeches [De bello Peloponnesiaco, engl., Ausz.] written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
