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Nemesis - Alcibiades and the Fall of AthensPevná vazba Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of…
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Nemesis - Alcibiades and the Fall of AthensPevná vazba
Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician.
Outraged by Alcibiades's celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought every chance to undermine him. 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. 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
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