Pericles

following a new leader, an Athenian statesman, Pericles, who had a fervent interest in advancing Athens. Under Pericles’ leadership, Athens experienced a period of time in the 5th century where they were regarded as the cultural, intellectual and commercial heart of the Hellenic world. Their hegemony and superiority contributed to the creation of a Golden Age, a valid title, which is currently embraced by historians. Athens flourished with culture during this time period, especially with the construction of the world’s most renowned Acropolis. Athens was also responsible for the development of democracy. Additionally, Athens had a substantial amount…

Pericles The Athenian golden age took off under the control of Pericles. Although he didn’t just take it over it all began somewhere. It started off in Greece in the city-state known as Athens 495 BC, Pericles was rather luckily he grew up already in one of the better Athenian families they had a lot of money, his father was Xanthippus a very strong military leader. Pericles was rather lucky he was taught by some of the best scholars out there. Pericles loved music, politics, and philosophy he…

Menaldo states “Pericles style of speaking, rhetorical ability, and preference for rational explanation, became well settled in him on account of his great natural genius. His preference for rationality over customs, omens and divinations made its way into his policy proposals….Pericles Olympian loftiness, composure, calmness, and even the composure that characterized his tone of voice, present the embodiment of a political leader who derived his authority through his self-command and persuasive…

The Golden Age of Athens was a time of advancement in many areas of life such as architecture. Architecture during this period became more complex and unique with many different sculptures and columns. During this time Pericles was the leader, this is why this period is sometimes referred to as the ‘Age of Pericles’ (Cartwright). There were many things that affected architecture and how it developed during this time including the impact from the economy, and the wars. I believe one of the main…

The Leaderships of Pericles and Lycurgus Although there were many other notable leaders from ancient Greece, Pericles and Lycurgus should both be noted as two of the more prominent leaders in Greek history. Each leader influenced their own city-states both politically and socially. Pericles was a military general, a public speaker, and a widely known statesman in Athens (Joshua J. Mark, PERICLES, aceint.eu). Lycurgus was a lawmaker in Sparta, and he established many of ancient Sparta’s…

Pericles is a fearless leader. The dictionary defines a leader as a person who leads. A leader also is a guiding or directing head, as of an army or political group. Pericles successfully lead a military, built a a democracy, and built many cultural projects. With all of his successes, 446 to 429 BC, have been called the Age of Pericles. Pericles was born in 495 BC in Athens and lived until he passed in 429 BC because of the plague. In 461, he ruled Athens until the day he died. According to…

Pericles, Athenian statesman of the 5th century B.C., whose name is closely associated with the great age of Athenian democracy and culture, the Athenian Empire, and the Peloponnesian War. He was born about 495 B.C., son of Xanthippus, a well-known political figure during the period of the Persian Wars, and Agariste, of the Alcmeonid family, one of the most prominent in Athens. Although little is known of his youth, two men seem to have played an important role in his education: Damon,…

cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy…” In other words, the men of Athens are extremely hardworking without overdoing it and intelligent without having “the traits of a female.” According to the laws of Plato as well as Homer’s Odyssey, women spent their days indoors raising children, directing the slaves, preparing meals, and holding the fort down. They had little to no education; therefore, Pericles’s remark does not make sense. If the men had an education…

In the Pericles’ Funeral Oration, he first explains the people before them. How they paved a path for the road that they are on now. “But what was the road by which we reached our position, what the form of government under which our greatness grew, what the national habits out of which it sprang...”. He is portraying the value of honor during this point of the speech. Pericles wants his people to believe they are fighting for the best city in the world. He does this by transitioning from…

Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recreates Pericles’ well-known funeral oration that was given at the end of the first year of the war. Speeches such as Pericles’ were traditionally delivered to honor the fallen in Athen’s many wars and campaigns against other countries. Thucydides remarks on this tradition, claiming that, “[the chosen orator] makes an appropriate speech in praise of the dead.”(II,34). Pericles’ oration deviates from the typical formula of Athenian funeral speeches, instead…