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Nascido das mais ilustres famílias atenienses em 451 a. C., dotado de inteligência, beleza, capacidade de sedução e dotes oratórios, além de um sentido estratégico apurado, Alcibíades veio a morrer, fora da pátria e acossado por várias facções, em 404 a. C. Quanto ao enredo que dá forma à história de Coriolano, é supostamente passado em 493 a.C. - Gaio Márcio é um general romano que se opõe às reformas que, em Roma, tentam favorecer a plebe. Márcio acaba por ser banido da sua própria cidade, para se aliar aos Volscos, povo inimigo da Urbe. Ao pôr em paralelo o percurso biográfico de Alcibíades e de Coriolano, Plutarco escolheu duas figuras de contextos históricos não muito similares. Alcibíades pertence ao contexto de uma democracia em crise, numa Hélade em vésperas de se lançar na Guerra do Peloponeso. Coriolano pertence aos primórdios da República romana. Se a figura do primeiro tem contornos históricos, a do segundo debate-se entre a História e os contornos lendários.
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Thucydides. --- Alcibiades --- Greece --- Grèce --- History --- Histoire
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The Alcibiades was widely read in antiquity as the very best introduction to Plato. Alcibiades in his youth associated with Socrates, and went on to a spectacularly disgraceful career in politics. When Socrates was executed for 'corrupting the young men', Alcibiades was cited as a prime example. This dialogue represents Socrates meeting the charming but intellectually lazy Alcibiades as he is about to enter adult life, and using all his wiles in an attempt to win him for philosophy. In spite of its ancient reputation, many modern scholars have thought that the Alcibiades is not by Plato and it has therefore lacked a decent commentary. This edition remedies that lack. The notes explain difficulties of linguistic, literary and philosophical detail. The introduction includes a discussion of the dialogue's authenticity, and of the consequences that acknowledging its authenticity has for our conception of Plato's intellectual development.
Plato. --- Plato --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Plato - Alcibiades
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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.--
History of ancient Greece --- Alcibiades --- Greece --- Grèce --- History --- Histoire
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Statesmen --- Generals --- Hommes d'Etat --- Généraux --- Biography --- Biographies --- Alcibiades --- Greece --- Grèce --- History --- Histoire --- Biography. --- Alcibiades. --- Généraux --- Grèce --- Armed Forces --- Officers --- Alkibiades --- Alcibiade --- Alkibiad
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, --- Periodicals --- Tennyson, --- Alcibiades, --- טניסון, אלפרד, --- טענעסאן, א., --- טעניסאן, אלפרעד, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Tennyson, Alfred --- Alfred --- Periodicals.
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