List of Figures ix Foreword: Introducing Azoulay's Pericles, Paul Cartledge xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1 An Ordinary Young Athenian Aristocrat? 15 Chapter 2 The Bases of Periclean Power: The Strategos 28 Chapter 3 The Bases of Periclean Power: The Orator 40 Chapter 4 Pericles and Athenian Imperialism 51 Chapter 5 A Periclean Economy? 67 Chapter 6 Pericles and His Circle: Family and Friends 84 Chapter 7 Pericles and Eros: Caught between Civic Unity and Political Subversion 94 Chapter 8 Pericles and the City Gods 107 Chapter 9 After Pericles: The Decline of Athens? 127 Chapter 10 The Individual and Democracy: The Place of the "Great Man" 137 Chapter 11 Pericles in Disgrace: A Long Spell in Purgatory (15th to 18th Centuries) 157 Chapter 12 Pericles Rediscovered: The Fabrication of the Periclean Myth (18th to 21st Centuries) 192 Notes 227 Bibliography 265 Index 287
Vincent Azoulay is assistant professor of ancient Greek history at the Universit Paris-Est Marne-la-Valle and a leading expert on the politics of classical Greece.
"[Azoulay] writes with great clarity, and with an impressive depth of interpretative sophistication."--From the foreword by Paul Cartledge "Remarkable in every way."--Roger-Pol Droit, Le Monde "Rigorous and finely argued."--Pascal Payen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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