Pericles

A Sourcebook and Reader
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25604-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 282 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tracy, Stephen V.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Passages Translated xi
List of Illustrations xv
Abbreviations and Primary Sources xvii
Preface xxi
Introduction

A Brief History of Athens in the Fifth Century 1
Chronology 8
The Life of Pericles 14

the primary sources
Pericles’ Writings 27

The Archaeological Evidence
Inscriptions and Ostraca 32
Portrait Busts 35
The Building Program on the Acropolis 40

Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles I:

Prelude to War 45

Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles II:

The First Campaign and the Funeral Oration 61

Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles III:

Plague, Last Speech, and Final Tribute 79

Aristophanes and Old Comedy: Caricature and Personal Attack 96
Herodotus 109
Protagoras 116

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

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen V. Tracy is Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University and Professor and Director Emeritus at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He is the author of several books, including Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C. (UC Press); Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C. (UC Press); and The Story of the Odyssey.