Pericles and the Conquest of History: A Political Biography

ISBN-13: 9781107110144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 346 str.

Loren Samons

Opis

Loren J. Samons, II examines the events of Athenian history to understand the actions and legacy of this pivotal historical figure.

Recenzje

'The Pericles Samons offers the readers of this book - the figure usually hailed as Athens' greatest statesman - was rather the best-ever rodeo rider of the vast brutal conglomerate beast formed by the reeking mass of his cruel and hungry Athenian countrymen. I do not imagine that I will ever read another book about classical antiquity at once as elegant in its learning, as pleasing in its prose, as pregnant with ideas, and as shocking in its conclusions.' J. E. Lendon, University of Virginia

Spis treści

1. To be an Athenian; 2. Curses, tyrants, and Persians (c.500–479); 3. The dominance of Kimon (c.479–462/1); 4. The democratic revolution (c.462/1–444/3); 5. A Greek empire (c.460–445); 6. Pericles and Sparta: the outbreak of the Great War (444/3–431); 7. Pericles and Athenian nationalism: the conquest of history; 8. Athenian culture and the intellectual revolution: Pericles and the people; Epilogue: the Periclean tradition.