Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Pericles' Alcmeonid Family Tree
- Introduction: A Biography of Pericles in the Context of the Ancient Sources
- 1 The Notorious Family History of Pericles' Mother
- 2 The Harsh Lessons of the Career of Pericles' Father
- 3 Pericles Becomes a Teenager during a Family Crisis and a National Emergency
- 4 Pericles Becomes a Refugee during Athens' Greatest Peril
- 5 Pericles Becomes an Adult as Athens Builds an Empire
- 6 Pericles' Innovative Education for Leadership in Athenian Democracy
- 7 Pericles Becomes a Leader as Athens and Sparta Become Enemies
- 8 Pericles Becomes the First Man of Athens
- 9 Pericles' Responsibility for the Samian Revolt and the Peloponnesian War
- 10 Pericles' Fate, Then and Later
- Suggested Readings
- Index
List of Maps
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Pericles' Alcmeonid Family Tree
- Introduction: A Biography of Pericles in the Context of the Ancient Sources
- 1 The Notorious Family History of Pericles' Mother
- 2 The Harsh Lessons of the Career of Pericles' Father
- 3 Pericles Becomes a Teenager during a Family Crisis and a National Emergency
- 4 Pericles Becomes a Refugee during Athens' Greatest Peril
- 5 Pericles Becomes an Adult as Athens Builds an Empire
- 6 Pericles' Innovative Education for Leadership in Athenian Democracy
- 7 Pericles Becomes a Leader as Athens and Sparta Become Enemies
- 8 Pericles Becomes the First Man of Athens
- 9 Pericles' Responsibility for the Samian Revolt and the Peloponnesian War
- 10 Pericles' Fate, Then and Later
- Suggested Readings
- Index
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- PericlesA Biography in Context, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016