Pericles
A Sourcebook and Reader
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:8th May '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
"Easily readable and thoroughly engaging." New England Classical Journal "Tracy has produced a useful short introduction to the sparse sources on Pericles and some of the modern interpretations of his career and personality. -- Susan Downie Mouseion
ISBN: 9780520256040
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 18mm
Weight: 272g
248 pages