Author:
Azoulay, Vincent.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxiv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note:"Originally published in France as Périclès: La démocratie athénienne à l'épreuve du grand homme, Armand Colin, 2010."
Note:An ordinary young Athenian aristocrat? -- The bases of Periclean power : the strategos -- The bases of Periclean power : the orator -- Pericles and Athenian imperialism -- A Periclean economy? -- Pericles and his circle : family and friends -- Pericles and Eros : caught between civic unity and political subversion -- Pericles and the city gods -- After Pericles : the decline of Athens? -- The individual and democracy : the place of "the great man" -- Pericles in disgrace : a long spell in purgatory (15th-18th centuries) -- Pericles rediscovered : the fabrication of the periclean myth (18th-21st centuries).
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
