Pericles A Biography in Context Martin Hardback Cambridge University Press

Pericles\n\nA Biography in Context\n\nThis is a provocative explanation of why Pericles insisted power was the only guarantee of Athens' survival and flourishing.\n\nThomas R. Martin (Author)\n\n9780521116459, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 27 July 2016\n\n256 pages\n23.6 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.61 kg\n\nPericles was the most famous leader of the most famous ancient Greek democracy - and also the most controversial in his own time and ever since. Was he a brutal imperialist ready to oppress other Greeks, or a clear-eyed defender of Athens' need for power to survive in a relentlessly hostile world? How did his intellectual training in ideas that many Athenians regarded as dangerous make him the most persuasive leader Athenian democracy ever knew? Why was his personal lifestyle so idiosyncratic? How should we evaluate his responsibility for the suffering and loss of the Peloponnesian War? Thomas R. Martin's unique emphasis on the effect on Pericles of his family's notorio]