Pericles : a sourcebook and reader / Stephen V. Tracy.
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TextSeries: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literaturePublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009Description: 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): Pericles, ca. 495-429 B.C | Athens (Greece) -- History | Statesmen -- Greece -- Athens -- Biography | Orators -- Greece -- Athens -- BiographyDDC classification: 938/.505092 LOC classification: DF228.P4 | T73 2009Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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