The ancient Greek statesman Pericles (ca 495–429 B.C.) left his mark on the world in far more ways than the iconic Acropolis that still defines the skyline of Athens. He advanced the foundations of ...

S uch is the fame of Pericles that, when we talk about the Hellenic world, we sometimes talk about ‘Periclean Athens’, ...

Pericles' plan to defeat Sparta seemed to have taken account of everything. With a fleet of 300 triremes; 13,000 hoplite infantrymen; 1,200 cavalry and16,000 reserves; the Athenians believed ...

Some megalomaniacs bequeath their names to a city, like Léopoldville or Constantinople. Most great men settle for a statue or a street sign. But a few, a very few, are immortalised as the epithet of ...

Through the course of Western history, only a few leaders have so dominated their eras as to lend them an adjectival label. England had its Elizabethan age, Rome its Augustan. But first came Periclean ...

In the year 431 BC Pericles stood before the popular assembly and urged them to make a momentous decision: 'If we go to war, as I think we must, be determined that we are not going to climb down. For ...

Much has been said about Thucydides’ trap, but few talk about Pericles’ walls. Yet, if we look for historical lessons from the Peloponnesian war some 2,500 years ago, the story of the Long Walls is ...

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has long hailed the ancient Athenian statesman Pericles as one of his idols, but their careers are now aligning more closely than he would like in the age ...