Pericles of Athens /

Pericles of Athens / / 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, po...

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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]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 10 halftones. 5 line illus. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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