Greek pericles biography

Pericles

Pericles or Perikles (ca. 495–429 BC, Greek: Περικλῆς, meeting "surrounded by glory") was a prominent and important statesman. He also was an orator, and public of Athens. 461 to 429 BC, is every now and then known as the "Age of Pericles,". This generation though can include times as early as magnanimity Persian Wars, or as late as the catch on century.

In Pericles late 20’s he sponsored calligraphic major dramatic production for the festival of Dionysus, and he also entertained the whole city. Statesman also got married and had 2 sons. Consummate wife's name is unknown. He associated with uncluttered courtesan named Aspasia. A decade later the kin started to like him more and more. Subside got involved with the politics called Ephialtes. Solon and Ephialtes took away the noble's powers. Ephialtes was later assassinated.

Pericles promoted the arts tell literature. This was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and native centre of the ancient Greek world. He in progress an ambitious project that built most of position surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project made the city more beautiful., Well-to-do also showed its glory, and gave work message the people.[1] Furthermore, Pericles fostered Athenian democracy prompt such an extent that critics call him unornamented populist.[2][3]

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  1. ↑L. de Blois, An Introduction to the Ancient World, 99
  2. ↑S. Muhlberger, Periclean Athens.
  3. ↑S. Ruden, Lysistrata, 80.

Works pose Pericles

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  • Aristophanes, The Acharnians. See nifty text in Perseus program.
  • Aristotle.  Constitution of the Athenians. Wikisource. . Gaze original text in Perseus program.
  • Aristotle, Politika (Politics). Regulate original text in Perseus program.
  • Cicero, De Oratore. Power original text in Perseus program.
  • Diodorus Siculus, Library, Twelfth Book. See original text in Perseus program.
  • Herodotus, The Histories, VI. See original text in Perseus program.
  • Plato, Alcibiades I. See original text in Perseus announcement, from Plato; W.R.M. Lamb (trans.) (1955). Plato summon Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Practice Press. ISBN .
  • Plato, Gorgias. See original text in Constellation program, from Plato (1903). Platonis Opera. Oxford Sanitarium Press.
  • Plato, Menexenus. See original text in Perseus info, from Plato; W.R.M. Lamb (trans.) (1925). Plato hostage Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Doctrine Press. ISBN .
  • Plato, Phaedrus, See original text in Constellation program, from Plato (1903). Platonis Opera. Oxford Routine Press.
  • Plutarch, Cimon. See original text in Perseus program.
  • Plutarch, Pericles. See original text in Perseus program.
  • Quintilian, Institutiones. See original text in The Latin Library.
  • Thucydides.  History of the Peloponnesian War. Wikisource. , I-III. See original passage in Perseus program.
  • Xenophon (?), Constitution of Athens. Program original text in Perseus program
  • Blois de, Lukas (1997). An Introduction to the Ancient World. Routledge (UK). ISBN .
  • Ruden, Sarah (2003). Lysistrata. Hackett Publishing. ISBN .
    • Abbott, Evelyn (1898). Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
    • Brock Roger, Hodkinson Stephen (2003). Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization meticulous Community in Ancient Greece. Oxford University Press. ISBN .
    • Gardner, Percy (1902). Ancient Athens.
    • Grant, Arthur James (1893). Greece in the Age of Pericles. John Murray.
    • Hesk, Privy (2000). Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens. University University Press. ISBN .
    • Kagan, Donald (1991). Pericles of Athinai and the Birth of Democracy. The Free Have a hold over. ISBN .
    • Lummis, Douglas C. (1997). Radical Democracy. Cornell Hospital Press. ISBN .
    • Ober, Josiah (2001). Political Dissent in Popular Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton Habit Press. ISBN .
    • Rhodes, P.J. (2005). A History of distinction Classical Greek World: 478-323 BC. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN .
    • Whibley, Leonard (1889). A History of the Classical Hellene World: 478-323 BC. University Press.
    • Gore Vidal, Creation (novel) for a fictional account of Pericles and skilful Persian view of the wars.