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age of pericles
ancient greece
ancient greek history
archeology
aristophanes
athenian society
athens
Author_Stephen V. Tracy
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delian league
demigod
democracy
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first citizen of athens
golden age of greece
government and governing
greece
greek general
greek orator
greek statesman
herodotus
lysias
parthenon
peloponnesian war
pericles
persian war
plato
plutarch
political
politics
protagoras
sophocles
thucydides
warfare
xenophon
Product details
- ISBN 9780520256040
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 11 May 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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' 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.
Stephen V. Tracy is Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University and Professor and Director Emeritus at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He is the author of several books, including Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C. (UC Press); Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C. (UC Press); and The Story of the Odyssey.
