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The Life of Alcibiades

Author : Edward Frederic Benson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781456303334
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades written by Edward Frederic Benson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Promoted the Peloponnesian war against rival Sparta, who subsequently inspired Athens's failed Sicilian Expedition, and who later allied himself with two of Athens's biggest enemies: Sparta and Persia. His actions gravely affected the future of Athens and his motives and reasons for acting as he did are indeed the stuff of fascinating biography. Alcibiades's extraordinary beauty, great wealth, ostentatious vanity, male and female amours, debaucheries, and impious revels earned him notoriety not only in Athens but throughout the Hellenic world. In subsequent ages his name was used as a near by-word for all kinds of excess. But, as Benson argues, reappraising Alcibiades's reputation, great as were his vices, his virtues were even greater..."--Publisher description.

The Life of Alcibiades: The Idol of Athens

Author : E. F. Benson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1733537120
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades: The Idol of Athens written by E. F. Benson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcibiades (ca. 450 BC-ca. 404 BC) was the charismatic and controversial Athenian general and politician who promoted the Peloponnesian war against rival Sparta, who subsequently inspired Athens's failed Sicilian Expedition, and who later allied himself with two of Athens's biggest enemies: Sparta and Persia. His actions gravely affected the future of Athens and his motives and reasons for acting as he did are indeed the stuff of fascinating biography. Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a prolific and much-loved English novelist, biographer and short story writer. He was educated at Marlborough College and King's College, Cambridge. Benson is most famous for a series of comic novels he published during the 1920s and 1930s--""Mapp and Lucia"". Benson was awarded an OBE and was made an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Revised, with Introduction, by Dr Craig Paterson. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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.

Alcibiades

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (924 download)

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Nemesis

Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674919661
Total Pages : 236 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 236 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.

The Life of Alcibiades, the Idol of Athens

Author : Edward Frederic Benson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades, the Idol of Athens written by Edward Frederic Benson and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

The Life of Alcibiades

Author : E. F. Benson
Publisher : White Press
ISBN 13 : 9781473315587
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades written by E. F. Benson and published by White Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcibiades and Athens

Author : David Gribble
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019154146X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades and Athens written by David Gribble and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not the aim of this book to add to the extensive literature on Alcibiades' life and career. Instead the author focuses on the explosive mix of fear and fascination excited by Alcibiades in his contemporaries and in particular in key literary texts: Thucydides, the mysterious pseudo-Andocides 4, the encomium of Isocrates 16, the final scene of Plato's Symposium. The book is about the acute tension between the classical city and the individual of superlative power, status, and ambition. It looks at the way Alcibiades is approximated to archetypes of the individual 'outside' the city: the tyrant, the athletic victor, the ostracism victim, the scapegoat, the barbarian. Whereas modern discussions of ancient Athens and Athenian civic texts stress collective ideology, this study focuses on the opposing strand in tension with this dominant ideology: the fascination with the powerful individual. The book is thus at once a contribution to the study of civic ideology, and also to that of the individual and of the role of the individual in classical texts - rhetoric, the historiography of Thucydides, the Platonic dialogue. The book also considers the development of the post-classical depiction of Alcibiades, concluding with a study of Plutarch's reaction both to this tradition and to the classical texts.

Alcibiades (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Walter M. Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131774683X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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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.

Alcibiades

Author : P. J. Rhodes
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848849826
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades written by P. J. Rhodes and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned classicist presents an authoritative biography of one of the most infamous and colorful characters of Ancient Greece. A charismatic Athenian and close associate of Socrates, Alcibiades came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War when he helped form an alliance against Sparta. Although his gambit led to defeat, his prestige remained high, and he was elected to lead the Sicilian Expedition of 415 BC. Shortly after arrival in Sicily, however, Alcibiades was recalled to face charges of sacrilege allegedly committed during his pre-expedition reveling. Jumping ship on the return journey, he defected to the Spartans. Alcibiades quickly ingratiated himself with the Spartans, helping them to victory against his former countrymen. But he soon overstepped the bounds of hospitality by sleeping with the Spartan queen. On the run again, he began to play a dangerous game of shifting loyalties. He had a hand in engineering the overthrow of democracy at Athens in favor of an oligarchy, which allowed him to return from exile, though he then opposed the extreme excesses of that regime. For a time, Alcibiades restored Athens' fortunes in the war, but was soon forced into exile once again. This time he took refuge with the Persians, but as they were now allied to the Spartans, the cuckolded King Agis was able to arrange his assassination by Persian agents.

Alcibiades

Author : P. J. Rhodes
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781399013840
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades written by P. J. Rhodes and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War (429-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant, charismatic (and wealthy), this close associate of Socrates persuaded the Athenians to attempt to stand up to the Spartans on land as part of an alliance he was instrumental in bringing together. Although this led to defeat at the Battle of Mantinea in 418 BC, his prestige remained high. He was also a prime mover in Athens' next big strategic gambit, the Sicilian Expedition of 415 BC, for which he was elected as one of the leaders. Shortly after arrival in Sicily, however, he was recalled to face charges of sacrilege allegedly committed during his pre-expedition revelling. Jumping ship on the return journey, he defected to the Spartans. Alcibiades soon ingratiated himself with the Spartans, encouraging them to aid the Sicilians (ultimately resulting in the utter destruction of the Athenian expedition)and to keep year-round pressure on the Athenians. He then seems to have overstepped the bounds of hospitality by sleeping with the Spartan queen and was soon on the run again. He then played a devious and dangerous game of shifting loyalties between Sparta, Athens and Persia. He had a hand in engineering the overthrow of democracy at Athens in favour of an oligarchy, which allowed him to return from exile, though he then opposed the increasingly-extreme excesses of that regime. For a time he looked to have restored Athens' fortunes in the war, but went into exile again after being held responsible for the defeat of one of his subordinates in a naval battle. This time he took refuge with the Persians, but as they were now allied to the Spartans, the cuckolded King Agis of Sparta was able to arrange his assassination by Persian agents. There has been no full length biography of this colorful and important character for twenty years. Professor Rhodes brings the authority of an internationally recognised expert in the field, ensuring that this will be a truly significant addition to the literature on Classical Greece.

The Ambition to Rule

Author : Steven Forde
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745786
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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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.

The Life of Alcibiades the Athenian

Author : Walter M. Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades the Athenian written by Walter M. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcibiades

Author : Jack Meyer
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466923970
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades written by Jack Meyer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is he just a troublemaker with an attitude? Or will this spunky youth grow up to do something great? The populace of Athens holds varied opinions about Alcibiades, a handsome boy who exhibits a devious and audacious personality. Based on historical record, author Jack Meyer reconstructs the life of Alcibiades, a man who uniquely impacted classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War. An orphan, Alcibiades grew up in the household of Pericles, was Socrates’ favorite student, and was immensely handsome and rich. This narrative tells the story of the stunning career of this brilliant tactical military commander, persuasive orator, and consummate traitor who switched sides three times during the war. The city’s own favorite son, this product of the Golden Age, was a man as morally corrupt as he was convincingly eloquent. The reconstruction of Alcibiades’ story breeds both fiction and farce, and this story of the Greek experience serves as an analogue for a critique of today’s American foreign policy.

Alcibiades and Athens

Author : D. W. Gribble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades and Athens written by D. W. Gribble and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcibiades His Role in Athens, Sparta, Persia and Greek Sex

Author : Hone Michael
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495283369
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades His Role in Athens, Sparta, Persia and Greek Sex written by Hone Michael and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world loves a rogue, and there is no better example than Alcibiades. He was all things to those who crossed his path: intelligent, courageous, ambitious, eloquent in speech, charm personified, so handsome that it's the first adjective employed by biographers and historians alike, sexually versatile, the ideal top to women, the perfect bottom to men. He was totally amoral, as depraved as a teenager, as corrupt as a cop, as streetwise as a delinquent, as pampered as the son of a wallstreeter, as sexy as Paul Newman. He was irreligious, treasonous, and the proof that the gods really do raise to dizzying heights those they wish to utterly destroy. Proof of his ascendancy through time is that I'm writing his story—2,500 years after the founding of his legend.In Classical Athens women grew to adulthood in the obscurity of kitchen and child care, while males were encouraged from birth to display their physical and intellectual strengths, the authenticity of which lay between their legs, legs spread at birth to reveal the scepter that would see them into the paramountcy of manhood and authority. Alcibiades was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and would be raised by lights brighter than any of those known in the history of humanity: Pericles the supreme statesman, Socrates the unequalled philosopher, Athens the birthplace of our democracy. He would know riches and prove himself valiant in the harshest battles known to the world up to then. Countless girls and women, boys and men would feel the potency of his scepter as, in the case of boys and men, he would know theirs. He took and he gave--the very principle of a life worth living.