Name: Pericles: A Biography in Context
SKU: 54896471
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Author: Martin, Thomas R.
ISBN: 9780521116459

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Physical Book

Author

Thomas R. Martin

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.8x15.9x2.4 cm

Weight

0.61 kg.

ISBN13

9780521116459

Synopsis "Pericles: A Biography in Context"

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.

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