Download or read book Pericles and the Conquest of History written by Loren J. Samons, II and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as representative of values like liberty and equality, Loren J. Samons, II demonstrates that the quest to make Athens the preeminent power in Greece served as the central theme of Pericles' career. More nationalist than humanist and less rationalist than populist, Pericles' vision for Athens rested on the establishment of an Athenian reputation for military success and the citizens' willingness to sacrifice in the service of this goal. Despite his own aristocratic (if checkered) ancestry, Pericles offered the common and collective Athenian people the kind of fame previously available only to heroes and nobleman, a goal made all the more attractive because of the Athenians' defensiveness about Athens' lackluster early history.
Download or read book Pericles and the Conquest of History written by Samons, II (Loren J.) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as representative of values like liberty and equality, Loren J. Samons, II demonstrates that the quest to make Athens the preeminent power in Greece served as the central theme of Pericles' career. More nationalist than humanist and less rationalist than populist, Pericles' vision for Athens rested on the establishment of an Athenian reputation for military success and the citizens' willingness to sacrifice in the service of this goal. Despite his own aristocratic (if checkered) ancestry, Pericles offered the common and collective Athenian people the kind of fame previously available only to heroes and nobleman, a goal made all the more attractive because of the Athenians' defensiveness about Athens' lackluster early history.
Download or read book A History of Greece written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pericles written by Thomas R. Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a provocative explanation of why Pericles insisted power was the only guarantee of Athens' survival and flourishing.
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Download or read book A History of Greece written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pericles written by Thomas R. Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pericles was the most famous leader of the most famous ancient Greek democracy - and also the most controversial in his own time and ever since. Was he a brutal imperialist ready to oppress other Greeks, or a clear-eyed defender of Athens' need for power to survive in a relentlessly hostile world? How did his intellectual training in ideas that many Athenians regarded as dangerous make him the most persuasive leader Athenian democracy ever knew? Why was his personal lifestyle so idiosyncratic? How should we evaluate his responsibility for the suffering and loss of the Peloponnesian War? Thomas R. Martin's unique emphasis on the effect on Pericles of his family's notorious history, his youthful experiences as a wartime refugee, and his unusual education reveals a brilliant politician whose hyper-rationality could not, in the end, protect him or his community from tragedy.
Download or read book A Smaller History of Greece written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Smaller History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest written by William Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest With Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art written by William Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book A Smaller History of Greece written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
