Description: Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens' Golden Age. 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. David Stuttard tells a spellbinding story of Alcibiades' life and the turbulent world he set out to conquer.
Brief description: David Stuttard is an independent scholar, theater director, and Fellow of Goodenough College, London. He has written numerous books about Ancient Greece, including Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens and Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens.
Review Quotes: Alcibiades will always be remembered as one of the slipperiest statesmen in history...Nemesis is a rich and rewarding biography, as thorough as it is bracing and as measured as it is entertaining. Stuttard is to be praised for capturing the complexity of both the man and the world he lived in with such sensitivity and clarity.--Daisy Dunn "New Criterion" (5/1/2018 12:00:00 AM)