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Pericles : a sourcebook and reader / Stephen V. Tracy.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tracy, Stephen V., 1941-
- Series:
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
- The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.
- Pericles.
- Statesmen--Greece--Athens--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Orators--Greece--Athens--Biography.
- Orators.
- Athens (Greece)--History.
- Athens (Greece).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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's 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- PASSAGES TRANSLATED
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ABBREVIATIONS AND PRIMARY SOURCES
- PREFACE
- Introduction: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATHENS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY
- CHRONOLOGY
- THE LIFE OF PERICLES
- Pericles' Writings
- The Archaeological Evidence
- Thucydides' Portrait of Pericles I: Prelude to War
- Thucydides' Portrait of Pericles II: The First Campaign and the Funeral Oration
- Thucydides' Portrait of Pericles III: Plague, Last Speech, and Final Tribute
- Aristophanes and Old Comedy: Caricature and Personal Attack
- Herodotus
- Protagoras
- Sophocles' Oedipus: In the Image of Pericles
- Lysias, Xenophon, and Plato
- Plutarch and the Biographical Tradition
- Afterword: The Legend of Pericles
- Appendix: The Dryden Translation of Plutarch's Life of Pericles
- Recommended Reading
- Glossary
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-202) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612772580
- 9781282772588
- 1282772589
- 9780520943629
- 0520943627
- OCLC:
- 773565092
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