I want to be a star
Peter Green: Bedazzling Alcibiades, 24 January 2019
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens
by David Stuttard.
Harvard, 380 pp., £21.95, April 2018,978 0 674 66044 1 Show More
by David Stuttard.
Harvard, 380 pp., £21.95, April 2018,
“... various modern scholars and writers, makes an impressive list. The best place to start – as David Stuttard does in his new biography – is family background. For all its democratic politics, Athenian society was intensely class-conscious. Although Alcibiades was a product of that complex network of upper-crust intermarried families which produced ... ”
