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Alcibiades and Athens
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A Study in Literary Presentation
Besorgungstitel - wird vorgemerkt | Lieferzeit: Besorgungstitel - Lieferbar innerhalb von 10 Werktagen I
Artikel-Nr:
9780198152675
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.06.1999
Seiten:
320
Autor:
David Gribble
Gewicht:
553 g
Format:
216x140x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
David Gribble was Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford (1994); no academic affiliation at present
Alcibiades (c. 450-404 BC)--general, statesman, adopted son of Pericles, lover of Socrates, profaner of the Mysteries-- was called by some the saviour of Athens and by others its greatest enemy. This book is a study of the explosive mixture of fear and fascination he excited in his contemporaries and in classical texts. It examines the acute tension between the classical city and the individual of superlative power, status, and ambition.