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Think what Pericles did in Athens, and Demosthenes. (source)Pericles = politician whose leadership contributed to Athens' political and cultural supremacy in Greece (495-429 BCE)
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Pericles created the people's courts and used the public treasury to promote the arts.† (source)
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Pericles, or Theseus, or...or...† (source)
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For example, Pericles, the ruler of Athens in ancient Greece, attacked and destroyed the city of the Samnians because he was angry with a prostitute.† (source)
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There were Persian screens and Invalides horsehair helmets, busts of Pericles and Cicero and Athena, and who-else-not.† (source)
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Thus they did homage to the convention, which if not implanted by the other sex was liberally encouraged by them (the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man) that publicity in women is detestable.† (source)
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And exactly the same is true of "all the other extolled dramas of Shakespeare, not to mention the senseless dramatized tales, PERICLES, TWELFTH NIGHT, THE TEMPEST, CYMBELINE, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA."† (source)PERICLES = politician whose leadership contributed to Athens' political and cultural supremacy in Greece (495-429 BCE)
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Hayward surrounded his sordid and vulgar little adventures with a glow of poetry, and thought he touched hands with Pericles and Pheidias because to describe the object of his attentions he used the word hetaira instead of one of those, more blunt and apt, provided by the English language.† (source)
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Nil sub sole novum, says Solomon; amor omnibus idem, says Virgil; and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos.† (source)
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The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type: Saladin,[387] Sapor,[388] the Cid,[389] Julius Cæsar,[390] Scipio,[391] Alexander,[392] Pericles,[393] and the lordliest personages.† (source)
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—Pericles of Tyre.† (source)
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Pericles, yes, but Demosthenes was right about Philip. (source)
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Socrates, the son of a sculptor (or stonecutter) and a midwife, was a young boy when the rise to power of Pericles brought on the dawning of the "Golden Age of Greece."† (source)
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The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles,[352] Xenophon,[353] Columbus,[354] Bayard,[355] Sidney,[356] Hampden,[357] teach us how needlessly mean our life is, that we, by the depth of our living, should deck it with more than regal or national splendor, and act on principles that should interest man and nature in the length of our days.† (source)
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As a young man, Socrates saw a fundamental power shift, as Pericles—perhaps history's first liberal politician—acted on his belief that the masses, and not just property-owning aristocrats, deserved liberty.† (source)
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Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles,[611] there was never any such society;—yet their genius failed them to find out the best head in the universe.† (source)
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