by Jacqueline de Romilly · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782724294828
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«Alcibiade ou Les dangers de l'ambition» is the historical biography by Jacqueline de Romilly, published by France loisirs in 1996 (282 pages, in French).
The book reconstructs the life of Alcibiades, a young Athenian nobleman educated by Pericles and close to Socrates, whose ambition and charisma marked the politics of Athens in the 5th century BC. After dragging his fellow citizens into the expedition against Sicily, he suffered exile, a death sentence, and defection to the side of Sparta and Persia, before being assassinated.
The biography «Alcibiade ou Les dangers de l'ambition», by Jacqueline de Romilly, won the Prix Pierre Lafue in 1995.
For readers interested in the history of classical Greece and in biographies of controversial political figures.
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française.
