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Pericles : a sourcebook and reader / Stephen V. Tracy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literaturePublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.Description: xxiii, 219 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780520256033 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520256034 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520256040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520256042 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 938/.505092 22
LOC classification:
  • DF228.P4 T73 2009
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Contents:
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 attack -- Herodotus -- Protagoras -- Sophocles' Oedipus: in the image of Pericles -- Lysias, Xenophon, and Plato -- Plutarch and the biographical tradition -- Afterword: the legend of Pericles.
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Book Book University of Macedonia Library Βιβλιοστάσιο Α (Stack Room A) Main Collection DF228.P4T73 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0013131710

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 attack -- Herodotus -- Protagoras -- Sophocles' Oedipus: in the image of Pericles -- Lysias, Xenophon, and Plato -- Plutarch and the biographical tradition -- Afterword: the legend of Pericles.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-202) and index.

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