Pericles
eBook - PDF

Pericles

A Sourcebook and Reader

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Pericles

A Sourcebook and Reader

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Passages Translated
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Abbreviations and Primary Sources
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. THE PRIMARY SOURCES
  11. Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles I: Prelude to War
  12. Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles II: The First Campaign and the Funeral Oration
  13. Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles III: Plague, Last Speech, and Final Tribute
  14. Aristophanes and Old Comedy: Caricature and Personal Attack
  15. Herodotus
  16. Protagoras
  17. Sophocles’ Oedipus: In the Image of Pericles
  18. Lysias, Xenophon, and Plato
  19. Plutarch and the Biographical Tradition
  20. Afterword: The Legend of Pericles
  21. Appendix: The Dryden Translation of Plutarch’s Life of Pericles
  22. Recommended Reading
  23. Glossary
  24. Index