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Pericles
A Biography in Context

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  • Date Published: September 2016
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521133357

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  • Pericles was the most famous leader of the most famous ancient Greek democracy - and also the most controversial in his own time and ever since. Was he a brutal imperialist ready to oppress other Greeks, or a clear-eyed defender of Athens' need for power to survive in a relentlessly hostile world? How did his intellectual training in ideas that many Athenians regarded as dangerous make him the most persuasive leader Athenian democracy ever knew? Why was his personal lifestyle so idiosyncratic? How should we evaluate his responsibility for the suffering and loss of the Peloponnesian War? Thomas R. Martin's unique emphasis on the effect on Pericles of his family's notorious history, his youthful experiences as a wartime refugee, and his unusual education reveals a brilliant politician whose hyper-rationality could not, in the end, protect him or his community from tragedy.

    • Explains the influences and pressures on Pericles by fully telling his notorious family history, which no other Pericles biography does
    • Examines in depth Pericles' dramatic wartime experiences as a youth, exploring the genesis of his unyielding hardline policy against Sparta in Athenian foreign policy
    • Describes Pericles' special intellectual training, demonstrating his singular approach to persuasive leadership in a direct democracy
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    • Date Published: September 2016
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521133357
    • length: 256 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 18 mm
    • weight: 0.49kg
    • contains: 19 b/w illus. 6 maps
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction: a biography of Pericles in the context of the ancient sources
    1. The notorious family history of Pericles' mother
    2. The harsh lessons of the career of Pericles' father
    3. Pericles becomes a teenager during a family crisis and national emergency
    4. Pericles becomes a refugee during Athens' greatest peril
    5. Pericles becomes an adult as Athens builds an empire
    6. Pericles' innovative education for leadership in Athenian democracy
    7. Pericles becomes a leader as Athens and Sparta become enemies
    8. Pericles becomes the first man of Athens
    9. Pericles' responsibility for the Samian Revolt and the Peloponnesian War
    10. Pericles' fate, then and later
    Suggested readings.

  • Author

    Thomas R. Martin, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
    With nearly forty years of experience teaching ancient history to non-specialist audiences, Thomas R. Martin is the author of books including surveys of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Alexander the Great, the works of Herodotus and Sima Qian, and An Overview of Classical Greek History online at the Perseus Project, which has been consulted by countless readers since its appearance as the first resource of its kind on the subject. He has also appeared in various documentaries on ancient history shown on television around the world.

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