Pericles: Statesman, Demagogue, Eccentric: Great Lives of the Ancient World
Autor Paul Cartledgeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2026
Pericles, the Athenian statesman, was a towering figure of his era, renowned for promoting Athenian democracy, shaping the Athenian Empire, and championing the arts, notably through the Parthenon’s creation. Born to aristocracy, he was a fervent democrat, a masterful demagogue in the ancient sense, and an eccentric in his personal life. Paul Cartledge explores Pericles’ life, examines Athenian history, and provides an insightful account of Pericles’ political career, his role in Athens’s building program, his intellectual connections, and his love life. Cartledge further considers Pericles’ reputation in the theater and how he has been represented over the centuries from antiquity to the present day. This book is a nuanced, illuminating, and lively portrayal of a remarkable politician.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781836392002
ISBN-10: 1836392001
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 25 halftones
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Great Lives of the Ancient World
ISBN-10: 1836392001
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 25 halftones
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Great Lives of the Ancient World
Notă biografică
Paul Cartledge is the A. G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, University of Cambridge. His many books include Democracy: A Life and Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece.
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“Cartledge's Pericles: Statesman, Demagogue, Eccentric belongs in Beijing's presidential library. Even a man as suspicious as Xi can trust a Cambridge historian who begins with Thucydides and the other ancient sources, picks through the biographical evidence (no flights of imagination) and ends with a succinct account of how Pericles has been received in the modern era by leaders from Abraham Lincoln to John F Kennedy. Professor Cartledge does not offer global strategy. Rather, this is a biography from Reaktion's new series, Great Lives of the Ancient World. Beyond a concise analysis of statesmanship and demagoguery in a turbulent democratic city, the author supplies sex and comedy to support the case, made in his subtitle, for his subject's eccentricity.”
“Written with his trademark consideration, clarity and wit, Cartledge’s Pericles, complete with 25 illustrations, a timeline, end notes, a fine bibliography and index, is a valuable addition to the corpus, will engage the general historian, and deserves to find a useful place in school and university libraries.”
“A wonderfully witty and learned biography, an ideal approach to the witty, learned, and pragmatic politician who built the awe-inspiring Athens we still visit to this day.”
“Cartledge’s new book is definitive: not just as a biography of Pericles but also as an analysis of the role he played in the Athenian democracy during its heyday.”
“Written with his trademark consideration, clarity and wit, Cartledge’s Pericles, complete with 25 illustrations, a timeline, end notes, a fine bibliography and index, is a valuable addition to the corpus, will engage the general historian, and deserves to find a useful place in school and university libraries.”
"Cartledge brings his wealth of knowledge and depth of insight to this engrossing exploration of one of the most influential and controversial politicians of all time. He situates Pericles fully in Athens and gives scope to all the nuances that are identified – sometimes inaccurately – by the adjective 'Periclean'. This is a masterly investigation of the complex and troubling relationship between demagoguery and democracy that speaks to the current era as much it does to one that will forever be inseparable from Pericles’s name."
“A wonderfully witty and learned biography, an ideal approach to the witty, learned, and pragmatic politician who built the awe-inspiring Athens we still visit to this day.”
“Cartledge’s new book is definitive: not just as a biography of Pericles but also as an analysis of the role he played in the Athenian democracy during its heyday.”