Description: Aimed at classics students and general readers, the book provides an in-depth examination of the fraught relationship between Athens' military commanders and its vaunted sovereign democracy.
Brief description: Debra Hamel is an independent scholar and the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece.
Review Quotes: Hamel combines hip writing for the general reader with a scholar's ability to size up the sources of our knowledge of the past.
--Tim Morris, Lection