Pericles

(proper noun)

A prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.

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Examples of Pericles in the following topics:

  • The Agora

    • The Temple of Hephaestus, the god of the forge, is a Doric peripteral temple built under the reign of Pericles between 449 and 415 BCE.
    • However, during the Classical period under the reign of Pericles, the Athenian Agora was built into a central site for the city's religious, civic, and judicial practices as well as home to commerce and markets.

  • The Acropolis

    • While there is evidence that the hill was inhabited as far back as the fourth millennium BCE, it was Pericles (c. 495 – 429 BCE) in the High Classical Period who coordinated the construction of the site's most important buildings including the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheion, and the temple of Athena Nike.
    • It was immediately following the Persian war that Athenian general and statesman Pericles funded an extensive building program on the Athenian Acropolis.
    • The opisthodomos is large, accounting for the size of the treasury of the Delian League, which Pericles moved from Delos to the Parthenon.
    • The buildings include: (1) Parthenon (2) Old Temple of Athena (3) Erechtheum (4) Statue of Athena Promachos (5) Propylaea (6) Temple of Athena Nike (7) Eleusinion (8) Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia or Brauroneion (9) Chalkotheke (10) Pandroseion (11) Arrephorion (12) Altar of Athena (13) Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus (14) Sanctuary of Pandion (15) Odeon of Herodes Atticus (16) Stoa of Eumenes (17) Sanctuary of Asclepius or Asclepieion (18) Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus (19) Odeon of Pericles (20) Temenos of Dionysus Eleuthereus (21) Aglaureion

  • The Parthenon

    • It was built under Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens as a temple dedicated to Athena Parthenos.
    • The opisthodomos is large, accounting for the size of the treasury of the Delian League, which Pericles moved from Delos to the Parthenon.

  • Imperial Sculpture under the Nervan-Antonines

    • He was a great lover of Greek culture and wore a closely trimmed beard in the style of Classical Greek statesmen, such as the Athenian Pericles.