Pericles in a sentence

Although Thucydides mentions the fining of Pericles, he does not mention the accusations against Pericles but instead focuses on Pericles' integrity.

Bevington, pp. 212 For Pericles, in 1854, Samuel Phelps created the effect of a storm by using rowers manning oars to carry Pericles from one location to another while a panorama moved behind them to create the illusion of travel.

P.J. Rhodes, A History of the Classical Greek World, 44 In 451 BC, Cimon returned from exile and negotiated a five years' truce with Sparta after a proposal of Pericles, an event which indicates a shift in Pericles' political strategy.

Plutarch, Pericles, XXV In response, Pericles passed a decree dispatching an expedition to Samos, "alleging against its people that, although they were ordered to break off their war against the Milesians, they were not complying".

But he didn’t panic, backing the horse underneath him to pick his way through runs before exploding through a late split to defeat Pericles ($12) by a long head with the runner-up’s Godolphin stablemate Golden Mile ($41) another half-length away.

The drama of Aspasia’s link with Pericles is particularly intense because, on first arriving in Athens, her social status was very low.

Thucydides’ Pericles makes an emphatic appeal to the very foundations of Athens’ power and supremacy.

While not a winner at Group 1 level, Pericles has been knocking on the door of Group 1 success.

Pericles, the Athenian leader praised for his ability to plan for all eventualities, dies in the unanticipated plague that strikes the city.

The Independent Shakespeare Company is back in Griffith Park with free performances of Twelfth Night and Pericles from June 29th through September 1st.

The woman is portrayed with her breasts and left leg exposed highlighting the humanity and artistry of Phidias, the master sculptor commissioned by Pericles to decorate the temple.

Besides “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” Afshar has also played in “Hair,” a past production at SF State.

According to Thucydides, Pericles may have declared in a funeral oration: We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

A common criticism is that Pericles was always a better politician and orator than strategist.

After the death of Pericles, the Athenians turned somewhat against his conservative, defensive strategy and to the more aggressive strategy of bringing the war to Sparta and its allies.

After Thucydides' ostracism, Pericles was re-elected yearly to the generalship, the only office he ever officially occupied, although his influence was so great as to make him the de facto ruler of the state.

Another consideration that may well have influenced Pericles' stance was the concern that revolts in the empire might spread if Athens showed itself weak.

Athenian citizens had to be descended from citizens—after the reforms of Pericles and Cimon in 450 BC, they "would be confined to those whose parents were both Athenian".

Beloch also believes that Pericles deliberately brought on the war to protect his political position at home.

Beyond these initial prosecutions, the ecclesia attacked Pericles himself by asking him to justify his ostensible profligacy with, and maladministration of, public money.