The relationship scandalized polite society, especially because they remained unmarried and Pericles treated her as an equal, an almost unthinkable action for most Greek men. But though Pericles ...

The most ambitious building program in Greek history, the building of the Parthenon was Pericles' greatest triumph and he oversaw the project personally. Costing 5000 talents in the first year ...

Pericles, the Greek politician from the fourth century B.C., was described to have an unusually formed head, and artistic renditions often showed him wearing a helmet to cover the deformity ...

a later Greek biographer, presented a more balanced view. Still, his view was not as favorable for Pericles, posing the ...