Pericles : a Sourcebook and Reader.

By:

Tracy, Stephen V [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520943629
0520943627

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

JC75.36

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Passages Translated; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Primary Sources; Preface; Introduction; A Brief History of Athens in the Fifth Century; Chronology; The Life of Pericles; THE PRIMARY SOURCES; Pericles' Writings; The Archaeological Evidence; Inscriptions and Ostraca; Portrait Busts; The Building Program on the Acropolis; 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 AttackHerodotus; 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; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; X; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; S; T; X.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book	G. Allen Fleece Library Online	Non-fiction	JC75.36 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn773565092

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.