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  title info:
    title: Nemesis
    sub title: Alcibiades and the fall of Athens
  name:
    name part: Stuttard, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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's 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's journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from mainland Greece to Syracuse, Sardis and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades's 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 2,000 years.
  table of contents: Introduction: Pinning down Proteus -- Prologue: A family divided -- Rearing the lion cub -- Coming of age -- Unbowed in battle -- Stirring the hornets' nest -- Courting the hydra -- SNAFU: between Scylla and Charybdis -- Sleeping with the enemy -- In a paradise garden -- Trading places -- Ruling the waves -- Dog days -- Nemesis -- Epilogue: The shadow of the dead.
  note: David Stuttard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Alcibiades
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
    temporal: Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
  classification: DF230.A4 S78 2018
  classification: 938/.05092 B
  identifier: 9780674660441
  identifier: 0674660447
  identifier: 2017045399
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171024
    record change date: 20180718090441.0
    record identifier: in00004025782