In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. In the speech Pericles ...

Academics sometimes call the form of government Cleisthenes established isonomy (meaning a government of equals) because it would take until the time of Pericles before democracy really came into own.

Thereafter, however, especially through the influence of the British historian George Grote and his friend the philosopher John Stuart Mill, democracy was seen as a good thing, and Pericles’ speech ...

When Pericles solves the terrible answer to Antioch's riddle, his life is thrust into turmoil. He flees for life, into the path of famine, shipwreck, love, and fatherhood.