Pericles of Athens

313 Pages·2014·5.4 MB·English

by  Périclès

Pericles of Athens

Pericles
o f at h e n s
Vincent Azoulay
Translated by Janet Lloyd
Foreword by Paul Cartledge
Princeton University Press
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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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Azoulay, Vincent.
[Périclès. English]
Pericles of Athens / Vincent Azoulay ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Paul Cartledge.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 691- 15459- 6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.– 429 B.C.
2. Statesmen— Greece—Athens—Biography. 3. Athens (Greece)— Politics and government. I. Title.
DF228.P4A9613 2014 938’.505092— dc23
[B]
2013026887
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To My Parents
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For Pauline Schmitt Pantel

Contents
List of Figures ix
Foreword: Introducing Azoulay’s Pericles Paul Cartledge xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 An Ordinary Young Athenian Aristocrat? 15
Chapter 2 The Bases of Periclean Power: The Stratēgos 28
Chapter 3 The Bases of Periclean Power: The Orator 40
Chapter 4 Pericles and Athenian Imperialism 51
Chapter 5 A Periclean Economy? 67
Chapter 6 Pericles and His Circle: Family and Friends 84
Chapter 7 Pericles and Eros: Caught between Civic Unity
and Political Subversion 94
Chapter 8 Pericles and the City Gods 107
Chapter 9 After Pericles: The Decline of Athens? 127
Chapter 10 The Individual and Democracy: The Place
of the “Great Man” 137
Chapter 11 Pericles in Disgrace: A Long Spell in Purgatory
(15th to 18th Centuries) 157
Chapter 12 Pericles Rediscovered: The Fabrication
of the Periclean Myth (18th to 21st Centuries) 192
Notes 227
Bibliography 265
Index 287

Figures
1. Pericles’ genealogical tree 16
2. Map of the Athenian Empire, ca. 431 B.C. 55
3. A coin war: the Owl (mid- fifth century B.C.), and the Samaina
(ca. 493– 489 B.C.) 59
4. The Odeon of Pericles (ca. 443– 435 B.C.) 63
5. Tribute- bearers (maybe Ionians) from the ceremonial staircase
(northern stairway) of the Apadana (Iran: Persepolis, end
of the sixth century B.C.) 64
6. Athens, Acropolis, the Parthenon (ca. 447– 437 B.C.): plan
of the temple 66
7. Hephaïsteion statue-group (ca. 421 B.C.), reconstructed
by Evelyn Harrison 114
8. Copy of the bas- relief sculpture of the Hephaïsteion
statue-group 115
9. Ostraka of Cimon (ca. 462 B.C.) 149
10. Pericles by Perugino, detail from the fresco Strength
and Temperance (ca. 1497) 162
11. Detail of the title page of Hobbes’s translation of Thucydides’
Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre (1634) 175
12. Anaxagore et Périclès (1796), by Augustin- Louis Belle 189
13. The Brandenburg Gate (1806), inspired by Mnesicles’
Propylaea, by Charles Meynier 202
14. The Apotheosis of Homer (1827), by Jean- Auguste- Dominique
Ingres 207
15. Périclès au lit de mort de son fils (1851), by François Nicolas
Chifflart 208
16. “Pericles on the Athenians” (1915), panel sticker on a bus 215