Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The mythologizing of history
- 2 Antigone, Pericles and Alcibiades
- 3 Oedipus Tyrannus, Alcibiades, Cleon and Aspasia
- 4 Ajax, Alcibiades and Andocides
- 5 Philoctetes, Alcibiades, Andocides and Pericles
- 6 Alcibiades in exile: Euripides' Cyclops
- 7 Oedipus at Colonus, Alcibiades and Critias
- 8 Critias and Alcibiades: Euripides' Bacchae
- 9 Alcibiades and Melos: Thucydides 5.84–116
- 10 Thucydides on tyrannicides: not a “digression”
- 11 Alcibiades and Persia (and more Thucydidean “digressions”)
- 12 Alcibiades and Critias in the Gorgias: Plato's “fine satire”
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The mythologizing of history
- 2 Antigone, Pericles and Alcibiades
- 3 Oedipus Tyrannus, Alcibiades, Cleon and Aspasia
- 4 Ajax, Alcibiades and Andocides
- 5 Philoctetes, Alcibiades, Andocides and Pericles
- 6 Alcibiades in exile: Euripides' Cyclops
- 7 Oedipus at Colonus, Alcibiades and Critias
- 8 Critias and Alcibiades: Euripides' Bacchae
- 9 Alcibiades and Melos: Thucydides 5.84–116
- 10 Thucydides on tyrannicides: not a “digression”
- 11 Alcibiades and Persia (and more Thucydidean “digressions”)
- 12 Alcibiades and Critias in the Gorgias: Plato's “fine satire”
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index
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- Sophocles and AlcibiadesAthenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature, pp. vPublisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2008