The assembly responded by declaring war on Sparta. Pericles insisted that Athens would win the war by superior planning. To be successful the Athenians must abandon the surrounding land and ...

One of the victims of the plague that swept Athens in 430 BC was Pericles himself. According to the historian Thucydides: '...The plague seized Pericles, not with sharp and violent fits ...

Calling all history buffs! Add this underrated town near Naples to your bucket list to see ancient Greek ruins in an ...

Pericles, First Citizen of Athens and commander of the Delian League, is one of the playable leaders of Greece in ...

Pericles praises Athens so that people will keep fighting; he praises the sacrifices of the dead so that others will imitate them. His words are a powerful expression of the duty of every citizen to ...

Aspasia was born in Greece in the fifth century BC. She and Pericles, the great general and politician, fell deeply in love.

What has the United States ever done for Greece? In a country where anti-Americanism was rife, the question brings heated ...

In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of ...

The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset, the Athenian statesman Pericles ordered all inhabitants of the Attica region to take refuge within the capital ...

NATHAN, CHARLES 2022. The Urban/Rural Divide in Athenian Political Thought. American Political Science Review, Vol. 116, Issue. 4, p. 1490.

“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant ...