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The life of Alcibiades : dangerous ambition and the betrayal of Athens

Title
The life of Alcibiades : dangerous ambition and the betrayal of Athens / Jacqueline de Romilly ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings.
Author
Romilly, Jacqueline de
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors
Rawlings, Elizabeth
Description
xx, 205 pages : map; 24 cm.
Summary
"A translation of a biography of the Athenian general Alcibiades by Jacqueline de Romilly, a French scholar and member of the French Academy"--
Series Statement
Cornell studies in classical philology
Uniform Title
  • Alcibiade. English
  • Cornell studies in classical philology.
Alternative Title
Alcibiade.
Subject
  • Alcibiades
  • Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.)
  • To 146 B.C
  • Statesmen > Greece > Athens > Biography
  • Generals > Greece > Athens > Biography
  • Diplomatic relations
  • Generals
  • Statesmen
  • Greece > Foreign relations > To 146 B.C
  • Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
  • Greece
  • Greece > Athens
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Note
  • Original French edition, Alcibiade, ou, Les dangers de làmbition. Copyright © Èditions de Fallois, 1995"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Richly endowed -- Insults and scandals -- First interlude : Alcibiades between two lifestyles -- Political debut : the Argive alliance -- The grand design -- The scandals -- Exile : defending treason -- In Asia Minor -- With the Athenians on Samos -- Second interlude : Alcibiades between two historians -- A triumphal return -- Slightly more than one hundred days -- A final appearance -- Repercussions.
Call Number
JFE 20-1772
ISBN
  • 9781501719752
  • 1501719750
LCCN
2018059296
OCLC
1078886858
Author
Romilly, Jacqueline de, author.
Title
The life of Alcibiades : dangerous ambition and the betrayal of Athens / Jacqueline de Romilly ; translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings.
Publisher
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Type of Content
text
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cornell studies in classical philology
Cornell studies in classical philology.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
To 146 B.C.
Added Author
Rawlings, Elizabeth, translator.
Other Form:
Online version: Romilly, Jacqueline de. Life of Alcibiades. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739965 (DLC) 2018060257
Research Call Number
JFE 20-1772
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