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Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades

Author : Simon Verdegem
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058677605
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)

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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.

The Life of Alcibiades

Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739964
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades written by Jacqueline de Romilly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450–404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy. As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly documents, Alcibiades's life is one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. Born into a wealthy and powerful family in Athens, Alcibiades was a student of Socrates and disciple of Pericles, and he seemed destined to dominate the political life of his city—and his tumultuous age. Romilly shows, however, that he was too ambitious. Haunted by financial and sexual intrigues and political plots, Alcibiades was exiled from Athens, sentenced to death, recalled to his homeland, only to be exiled again. He defected from Athens to Sparta and from Sparta to Persia and then from Persia back to Athens, buffeted by scandal after scandal, most of them of his own making. A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is also a strikingly modern figure, whose seductive celebrity and dangerous ambition anticipated current crises of leadership.

Nemesis

Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674919661
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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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.

Two Treatises of Government

Author : John Locke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Two Treatises of Government written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of all of Locke's publications quickly became established as the standard edition of the Treatises as well as a work of political theory in its own right.

Plutarch's Lives of Alcibiades & Coriolanus, Aristides & Cato the Censor

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Plutarch's Lives: Life of Alcibiades

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519623706
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Plutarch's Lives: Themistocles.-Camillus.-Pericles.-Fabius.-Alcibiades

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Cæsar and Antony

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Cæsar and Antony written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Six of Plutarch's Greek Lives: Nicias. Alcibiades

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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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:

Plutarch's Lives

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch's Lives

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch's lives

Author : Plutarchus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)

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Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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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:

Greek Lives

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191605077
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Greek Lives written by Plutarch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' In the nine lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Greece. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own day who wielded power. In prose that is rich, elegant and sprinkled with learned references, he explores with an extraordinary degree of insight the interplay of character and political action. While drawing chiefly on historical sources, he brings to biography a natural story-teller's ear for a good anecdote. Throughout the ages Plutarch's Lives have been valued for their historical value and their charm. This new translation will introduce new generations to his urbane erudition. The most comprehensive selection available, it is accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps and indexes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Plutarch's Lives

Author : Plutarchus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives written by Plutarchus and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lives

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Loeb Classical Library
ISBN 13 : 9780674990890
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Lives written by Plutarch and published by Loeb Classical Library. This book was released on 2000 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch (c. 45–120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs, one Greek figure and one similar Roman, though the last four lives are single. They not only record careers and illustrious deeds but also offer rounded portraits of statesmen, orators, and military leaders.