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 ...

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

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

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

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for Greece and the world.

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 ...

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

Pericles” is a notoriously difficult play to stage. The opening scene, with its shocking revelation, feels more like it ...

“‘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 ...

Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Pericles” is through December 7 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 East Grand. Showtimes are ...