Pericles
Subtitle: a sourcebook and reader
By: Stephen V. Tracy
Series: The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780520256033; 9780520256040; 9780520943629
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Pericles, -- ca. 495-429 B.C; Statesmen -- Greece -- Athens -- Biography; Orators -- Greece -- Athens -- Biography; Athens (Greece) -- History
Genres: Biography.
Description: Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader, Stephen V. Tracy visits the fifth century B.C. to find out. Tracy compiles and translates the scattered, elusive primary sources relating to Pericles. He brings Athens's political atmosphere to life with archaeological evidence and the accounts of those close to Pericles, including Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch. Readers will discover Pericles as a formidable politician, a persuasive and inspiring orator, and a man full of human contradictions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9780520256040 (pbk.)
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9780520943629 (e-book)
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Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: A brief history of Athens in the fifth century; title: Chronology; title: The life of Pericles; title: The primary sources.; title: Pericles' writings; title: The archaeological evidence; title: Thucydides' portrait of Pericles I : prelude to war; title: Thucydides' portrait of Pericles II : the first campaign and the funeral oration; title: Thycydides' portrait of Pericles III : plague, last speech, and final tribute; title: Aristophanes and old comedy : caricature and personal attacke; title: Herodotus; title: Protagoras; title: Sophocles' Oedipus : in the image of Pericles; title: Lysias, Xenophon, and Plato; title: Plutarch and the biographical tradition; title: Afterword : The legend of Pericles; title: Appendix : The Dryden translation of Plutarch's Life of Pericles; title: Recommended reading; title: Glossary