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Pressfield, Steven

Tides of War : A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War

Bantam, 2000

14,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
2000
ISBN
0553381393
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Pressfield, Steven
Editori
Bantam
Edizione
First Thus
Soggetto
ANCIENT GREECE FICTION ALCIBIADES PELOPONNESIAN WAR ATHENS, SPARTA
Descrizione
S
Sovracoperta
No
Stato di conservazione
Nuovo
Legatura
Brossura
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione

Descrizione

Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens' favorite son and the city's greatest general. A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory. But like the heroes in a great Greek tragedy, he was a victim of his own pride, arrogance, excess, and ambition. Accused of crimes against the state, he was banished from his beloved Athens, only to take up arms in the service of his former enemies. For nearly three decades, Greece burned with war and Alcibiades helped bring victories to both sides ? and ended up trusted by neither. Narrated from death row by Alcibiades' bodyguard and assassin, a man whose own love and loathing for his former commander mirrors the mixed emotions felt by all Athens, Tides of War tells an epic saga of an extraordinary century, a war that changed history, and a complex leader who seduced a nation.