Pericles of Athens / Vincent Azoulay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azoulay, Vincent, author.

Contributor:

Cartledge, Paul.

Lloyd, Janet.

Standardized Title:

Périclès. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statesmen--Greece--Athens--Biography.

Statesmen.

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.

Athens (Greece).

Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Foreword. Introducing Azoulay's Pericles / Cartledge, Paul

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

Notes:

"Originally published in France as Pericles: La democratie athenienne à l'epreuve du grand homme, Armand Colin, 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691178332

069117833X

9781400851171

1400851173

OCLC:

880530790