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Athenian patron of the arts
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pericles
Alternative clues for the word pericles
- Play by Shakespeare
- Greek statesman, caught in danger, gets tips from Eurocrats
- Athenian statesman during the Peloponnesian War
- Leader during the Golden Age of Athens
- Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athen's political and cultural supremacy in Greece
- Ancient Athenian leader — prince of Tyre
- "The first citizen of Athens"
Word definitions for pericles in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pericles (; Periklēs , in Classical Attic ; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a prominent and influential Greek statesman , orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age —specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Athenian statesman (c.495-429 B.C.E.), from Greek Perikles , literally "far-famed," from peri "all around" (see peri- ) + -kles "fame" (see Damocles ). His leadership of Athens marks its intellectual and material zenith. Related: Periclean .
Usage examples of pericles.
Since Aspasia is a Milesian by birth, her son by Pericles can never be a citizen or hold office.
Whenever they wish to embarrass Pericles politically, they accuse his friend Anaxagoras of blasphemy and impiety and all the usual nonsense .
Odeon, recently thrown together in record time by order of Pericles, who paid for it with money that had been collected from all the Greek cities for their common defense.
As a result, he is the only serious rival to Pericles, the leader of the democratic party.
Democritus tells me that whenever one sees a large group of noisy men at whose center looms either a helmeted onion or a scarlet moon, the first is bound to be Pericles, the second Thucydides.
I take some pleasure in the fact that it was Pericles who forced that law through the assembly.
Callias still resents deeply, or so he maintains, the fact that many years ago the wife of his eldest son left her husband in order to marry Pericles, thus making two families wretched instead of one.
General Pericles at government house, I have not come within half a city of him.
General Pericles has taken the field, and the war that everyone has been anticipating for so long has at last begun.
One day they will rid themselves of General Pericles simply because he bores them.
When Ephialtes was assassinated for his pains, the leadership passed to the young Pericles, whose first move was to make peace with Persia.
Cimon was dead and General Pericles was firmly in control of the state, the treaty was accepted by both sides and I was sent here to Athens as the corporeal symbol of our superb treaty.
We hurried across town, our faces hidden by shawls so that the conservatives might not know that the infamous representative of the Great King was conspiring with Pericles to enslave Athens.
Actually, the trophy is for the astute way that Pericles handled the Spartan king last winter when the Spartan army occupied Attica, and the Athenians were huddled behind their long walls.
But, as Pericles later remarked, this sort of Spartan precaution simply doubles the price.