Pericles : a sourcebook and reader /
Tracy, Stephen V.,1941-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-202) and index.
A brief history of Athens in the fifth century -- Chronology -- The life of Pericles -- The primary sources -- Pericles' writings -- The archaeological evidence. Inscriptions and Ostraca ; Portrait busts ; The building program on the Acropolis -- Thucydides' portrait of Pericles I: prelude to war -- Thucydides' portrait of Pericles II: the first campaign and the funeral oration -- Thucydides' portrait of Pericles III: plague, last speech, and final tribute -- Aristophanes and old comedy: caricature and personal attack -- Herodotus -- Protagoras -- Sophocles' Oedipus: in the image of Pericles -- Lysias, Xenophon, and Plato -- Plutarch and the biographical tradition -- Afterword: the legend of Pericles.
Pericles, approximately 495-429 B.C.
Statesmen
Orators