Pericles also elevated Athens’s role within the Delian League, a naval alliance of Greek city-states unified to fight the Persians. He maneuvered Athens to primacy over other league members, ...

Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is, according to Ben Jonson, “a mouldy tale,” and, until recently, it was seldom staged. In an informal poll of dedicated New York theatre-goers ...

A STORY. by HARRY MARK PETRAKIS. LOUIE DEBELLA’S bar was located on the corner of 34th Street and Dart Avenue, the last store in a group of five stores owned by Leonard Barsevick, who besides ...

Pericles, the great Athenian statesman, also proposed raiding the Parthenon to meet a shortfall, nearly 2,500 years ago — challenging the boundaries not just of good taste but of religious taboo.

By 1608, when “Pericles” likely was written, Shakespeare had also arrived at an acute awareness of the role of chance in our lives. The wheel of fortune in these plays tends to spin without ...

Watching “Pericles” Friday night in a rapt crowd of fellow Chicagoans, all clearly delighted that the RSC has come back in town for the first time in some 30 years, I was struck by how even ...

The last time I watched Fiasco Theater take on Shakespeare in the cozy brick box of Classic Stage Company, it was December 2017.In the words of Pericles, the hero of the play the company’s doing ...

WASHINGTON D.C. AND BAY RIDGE — CONGRESSMEMBER NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS (R-11/SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN) RECEIVED the Pericles Award from the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA ...