In Our Time: History

Pericles


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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pericles (495-429BC), the statesman who dominated the politics of Athens for thirty years, the so-called Age of Pericles, when the city’s cultural life flowered, its democracy strengthened as its empire grew, and the Acropolis was adorned with the Parthenon. In 431 BC he gave a funeral oration for those Athenians who had already died in the new war with Sparta which has been celebrated as one of the greatest speeches of all time, yet within two years he was dead from a plague made worse by Athenians crowding into their city to avoid attacks. Thucydides, the historian, knew him and was in awe of him, yet few shared that view until the nineteenth century, when they found much in Pericles to praise, an example for the Victorian age.

With

Edith Hall

Professor of Classics at King's College London.

Paul Cartledge

AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, University of Cambridge

And

Peter Liddel

Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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