Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

401 Pages·2018·6.18 MB·English

by  David Stuttard

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NEMESIS
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NEMESIS
ALCIBIADES AND THE FALL OF ATHENS
DAVID STUTTARD
CAMBRIDGE, MAS SA CHU SETTS
LONDON, ENGLAND | 2018
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Copyright © 2018 by David Stuttard
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of Amer i ca
First Printing
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Stuttard, David, author.
Title: Nemesis : Alcibiades and the fall of Athens / David Stuttard.
Description: Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts : Harvard University Press,
2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017045399 | ISBN 9780674660441
(hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Alcibiades— Biography. | Greece— History—
Peloponnesian War, 431–404 B.C.
Classification: LCC DF230.A4 S78 2018 | DDC 938/.05092 [B]— dc23
LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2017045399
Jacket art: Death of Alcibiades by Yakov Fyodorovich Kapkov, 1842. ART
Collection/Alamy Stock Photo
Jacket design: Jill Breitbarth
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To my wife, Emily Jane
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CONTENTS
Maps ix
Family Tree xv
Introduction Pinning Down Proteus 1
Prologue A Family Divided 10
1. Rearing the Lion Cub 22
2. Coming of Age 45
3. Unbowed in Battle 72
4. Stirring the Hornets’ Nest 100
5. Courting the Hydra 121
6. Between Scylla and Charybdis 140
7. Sleeping with the Enemy 163
8. In a Paradise Garden 186
9. Trading Places 206
10. Ruling the Waves 228
11. Dog Days 253
12. Nemesis 273
Epilogue The Shadow of the Dead 299
Notes 309
Timeline 363
Acknowledgements 367
Index 369
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