Plutarch's Life of Pericles
By Plutarch (Greece (Athens))
The golden age of Athens: the statesman who built the Parthenon, guided democracy with calm wisdom, and bore bereavement without a murmur. Moral focus: Civic virtue, serene self-possession, and the patronage of beauty.
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Lesson 1: The Dignity of Mind & Anaxagoras
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The Dignity of Mind & Anaxagoras
Young Pericles learns gravity, poise, and freedom from superstition from the philosopher Anaxagoras.
[Public Domain: Plutarch's Parallel Lives, translated by John Dryden / Thomas North.]
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Lesson 1: The Dignity of Mind & Anaxagoras
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Lesson 2: The Calm Temper under Insult
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Lesson 3: The Democratic Rise & Cimon's Rivalry
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Lesson 4: Building the Parthenon: Phidias and the Craftsmen
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Lesson 5: The Defense of the Public Treasury
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Lesson 6: The Samian War & The Return of the Fleet
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Lesson 7: Aspasia & The Circle of Philosophers
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Lesson 8: The Gathering Storm of the Peloponnesian War
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Lesson 9: Bringing the Countryside into the Long Walls
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Lesson 10: The Plague of Athens & Household Bereavement
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Lesson 11: Recall to Leadership & Forgiveness
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Lesson 12: The Noblest Epitaph: 'No Citizen Wept by My Hand'
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