Pericles of Athens
By: Vincent Azoulay ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Paul Cartledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780691154596
Subjects: Politics and government; Biography; Statesmen
Work titles: Périclès
Notes: "Originally published in France as Périclès: La démocratie athénienne à l'épreuve du grand homme, Armand Colin, 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: An ordinary young Athenian aristocrat?; title: The bases of Periclean power : the strategos; title: The bases of Periclean power : the orator; title: Pericles and Athenian imperialism; title: A Periclean economy?; title: Pericles and his circle : family and friends; title: Pericles and Eros : caught between civic unity and political subversion; title: Pericles and the city gods; title: After Pericles : the decline of Athens?; title: The individual and democracy : the place of "the great man"; title: Pericles in disgrace : a long spell in purgatory (15th-18th centuries); title: Pericles rediscovered : the fabrication of the periclean myth (18th-21st centuries).