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Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
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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ISBN 13 :
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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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 : David Stuttard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674919661
Total Pages : 236 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 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.
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
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 : Susan Scheinberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (769 download)
Download or read book The Debate Between Nicias and Alcibiades in Book Six of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War written by Susan Scheinberg and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarch Bernadotte Perrin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016468046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades written by Plutarch Bernadotte Perrin and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Vickers
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292746571
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Pericles on Stage written by Michael Vickers and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds. In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades. According to Vickers, the plays of Aristophanes—far from being nonpolitical—actually allow us to gauge the reaction of the Athenian public to the events that followed Pericles' death in 429 B.C., to the struggle for the political succession, and to the problems presented by Alcibiades' emergence as one of the most powerful figures in the state. This view of Aristophanes reaffirms the central role of allegory in his work and challenges all students of ancient Greece to rethink long-held assumptions about this important playwright.
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 : Bernadotte Perrin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332605828
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades written by Bernadotte Perrin and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Plutarch's Nicias and Alcibiades: Newly Translated, With Introduction and Notes As I send this volume to the press, I find that my thoughts are more than usually inclined to dwell on the aid and com fort which my work long drew from intimate companionship with the two friends to whose memories I am permitted to dedicate it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
