Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader

by Stephen Tracy

Book Overview

Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader, Stephen V. Tracy visits the fifth century B.C. to find out. Tracy compiles and translates the scattered, elusive primary sources relating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520256042
• ISBN13: 9780520256040
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"