pericles in English
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1. He and Ictinus were architects of the Parthenon (Plutarch, Pericles, 13).
2. Alcibiades is not just stunningly good-looking; he was raised in the house of Pericles (c
3. 29 Academically, that describes a period of ancient world history, as in Darius I, Pericles and Alexander the Great.
4. The Temple of Athena Nike overlooks the entrance to the Acropolis and was constructed during Pericles’ building program in 426BC
5. Main objective of the action: support and guidance for potential applicants to the Pericles 2020 programme
6. 16 This is what Pericles boasts to his listeners in the famous funeral oration told by Thucydides.
7. 30 Pericles, having perhaps foreseen the possibility, had warned his friend to make the plates easily detachable.
8. Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, a contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens".
9. 5 Indeed, the great lawgiver Solon once contemplated making marriage compulsory, and in Athens under Pericles bachelors were excluded from certain important public positions.
10. Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire, and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War.
11. Alcibiades was the ward and relative of Pericles, he was also a student of Socrates, who saved his life when they served together in the army.
12. For teaching this heresy, he was imprisoned by the authorities and sentenced to death, though he was later released through the intervention of Pericles.
13. 18 Greek historian. Considered the greatest historian of antiquity, he wrote a critical history oft he Peloponnesian War that contains the funeral oration of Pericles.
14. To which Alcibiades replied: Ah, Pericles, I do wish we could have met in those days when you were at your cleverest in such matters
15. These two Busts of Pericles and Ajax are our reductions of the museum originals which we created in lost-wax bronze for a customer in Australia
16. The Acropolis, considered the emblem of the city of Athens is a complex of temples built on a high rock structure, symbol of the Golden Age of Pericles
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18. Pericles, Athenian statesman largely responsible for the full development, in the later 5th century bce, of both the Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire, making Athens the political and cultural focus of Greece
19. Chersonese Sentence Examples In 455 Tolmides ravaged Laconia and secured Naupactus on the Corinthian gulf; in 4544 Pericles himself defeated the Sicyonians, and made a descent upon Oeniadae at the mouth of the gulf, and in 453 conducted a cleruchy to the Thracian Chersonese.
20. Scratch-built 1/72 Flick-Reinig Apteroid, 1911 From the archives (2009): I saw a sketch of the the Flick-Reining Apteroid (apteron means literally no-wing in the language of Pericles) in a yellowed-paged book titled “Airplanes of the World”, by Dawydoff and Rolfe
21. Because of the hasty disposal of her body (Pericles and his crew still have enough time, nevertheless, to line her "caulked and Bitumed" (3.1.71) coffin with a full range of accessories), as with Juliet's case, the appropriate waiting period to determine the genuineness of feminine death cannot be observed.
22. The “Apology” of Plato may be compared generally with those speeches of Thucydides in which he has embodied his conception of the lofty character and policy of the great Pericles, and which at the same time furnish a commentary on the situation of affairs from the point of view of the historian