Translator's Preface
Author's Preface
Chronology
1. Richly Endowed
2. Insults and Scandals
First Interlude: Alcibiades between Two Lifestyles
3. Political Debut: The Argive Alliance
4. The Grand Design
5. The Scandals
6. Exile: Defending Treason
7. In Asia Minor
8. With the Athenians on Samos
Second Interlude: Alcibiades between Two Historians
9. A Triumphal Return
10. Slightly More Than One Hundred Days
11. A Final Appearance
12. Repercussions
Conclusion
Index

Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings is a freelance translator of texts in French, working since 1992. She has degrees from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Iowa. Since 1995, she has translated independently, or with others, a number of books and articles, primarily in the field of Greek and Roman literature and history.
Jacqueline de Romilly (1913-2010) was a distinguished scholar of Greek history and culture. In 1973, she became Chair of Greek at the College de France, the first woman nominated to this prestigious institution. In 1988, she was elected to the Académie Française as the second woman member, after Marguerite Yourcenar. Romilly was an A.D. White Professor at large at Cornell from 1974 to 1980.