Crossword clues for pericles
pericles
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.
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 his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.
Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, a contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire, and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the " Age of Pericles", though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century.
Pericles promoted the arts and literature; it is principally through his efforts that Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified and protected the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to the people. Pericles also fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.
Pericles was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age.
- Pericles the Younger, son of Pericles by Aspasia.
Pericles may also refer to:
- Pericles (ship), an Indian indenture ship to Fiji
- SS Pericles, an ocean liner launched in 1907 and sinking off Cape Leeuwin, Australia, in 1910
- Perikles (name), a given name (and list of people with that name)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre, a play by William Shakespeare
- Perikles, a board game by Martin Wallace
- Pericles Bay, a bay on St. Agnes & Gugh in the Scilly Isles: the name came from Cornish Per Eglos = "Church Bay"1
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.