Pericles and the conquest of history : a political biography /

"As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analyses of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as representative of values like liberty and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Samons, Loren J.
Format: Printed Book
Subjects:
Pericles, > approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.
Democracy
Statesmen
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Greece > History > Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • To be an Athenian
  • Curses, tyrants, and Persians (c.500-479)
  • The dominance of Kimon (c.479-462/1)
  • The democratic revolution (c.462/1-444/3)
  • A Greek empire (c.460-445)
  • Pericles and Sparta : the outbreak of the Great War (444/3-431)
  • Pericles and Athenian nationalism : the conquest of history
  • Athenian culture and the intellectual revolution : Pericles and the people
  • Epilogue : the Periclean tradition
  • APPENDICES. Pericles' military career
  • Pericles' legislation
  • Ahenian government in the time of Pericles
  • Periclean ideas?

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