Pericles of Athens / / Vincent Azoulay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Azoulay, Vincent,
• MitwirkendeR: Cartledge, Paul,; Lloyd, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 10 halftones. 5 line illus. 1 map.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Foreword. Introducing Azoulay’s Pericles --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. An Ordinary Young Athenian Aristocrat? --; Chapter 2. The Bases of Periclean Power: The Stratēgos --; Chapter 3. The Bases of Periclean Power: The Orator --; Chapter 4. Pericles and Athenian Imperialism --; Chapter 5. A Periclean Economy? --; Chapter 6. Pericles and His Circle: Family and Friends --; Chapter 7. Pericles and Eros: Caught between Civic Unity and Political Subversion --; Chapter 8. Pericles and the City Gods --; Chapter 9. After Pericles: The Decline of Athens? --; Chapter 10. The Individual and Democracy: The Place of the “Great Man” --; Chapter 11. Pericles in Disgrace: A Long Spell in Purgatory (15th to 18th Centuries) --; Chapter 12. Pericles Rediscovered: The Fabrication of the Periclean Myth (18th to 21st Centuries) --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400851171; 9783110665925; 9783110606591
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400851171?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Vincent Azoulay.

Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. “Periclean” Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama, poetry, oratory, and architecture. Pericles of Athens is the first book in decades to reassess the life and legacy of one of the greatest generals, orators, and statesmen of the classical world. In this compelling critical biography, Vincent Azoulay takes a fresh look at both the classical and modern reception of Pericles, recognizing his achievements as well as his failings. From Thucydides and Plutarch to Voltaire and Hegel, ancient and modern authors have questioned Pericles’s relationship with democracy and Athenian society. This is the enigma that Azoulay investigates in this groundbreaking book. Pericles of Athens offers a balanced look at the complex life and afterlife of the legendary “first citizen of Athens.”