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BL
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632510
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| Uniform Title
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Périclès.English
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| Main Entry
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Azoulay, Vincent
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| Title & Author
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Pericles of Athens /\ Vincent Azoulay ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Paul Cartledge
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xiv, 291 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780691154596 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0691154597 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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"Originally published in France as Périclès: La démocratie athénienne à l'épreuve du grand homme, Armand Colin, 2010."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-285) and index
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| Contents
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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)
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| Abstract
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Pericles has had the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. This book reassess the life and legacy of one of the greatest generals, orators, and statesmen of the classical world
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Pericles,approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C
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Statesmen-- Greece-- Athens, Biography
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Athens (Greece), Politics and government
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| LC Classification
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DF228.P4A9613 2014
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Lloyd, Janet
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Cartledge, Paul
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