Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Foreword. Introducing Azoulay’s Pericles xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. An Ordinary Young Athenian Aristocrat? 15
8. Chapter 2. The Bases of Periclean Power: The Stratēgos 28
9. Chapter 3. The Bases of Periclean Power: The Orator 40
10. Chapter 4. Pericles and Athenian Imperialism 51
11. Chapter 5. A Periclean Economy? 67
12. Chapter 6. Pericles and His Circle: Family and Friends 84
13. Chapter 7. Pericles and Eros: Caught between Civic Unity and Political Subversion 94
14. Chapter 8. Pericles and the City Gods 107
15. Chapter 9. After Pericles: The Decline of Athens? 127
16. Chapter 10. The Individual and Democracy: The Place of the “Great Man” 137
17. Chapter 11. Pericles in Disgrace: A Long Spell in Purgatory (15th to 18th Centuries) 157
18. Chapter 12. Pericles Rediscovered: The Fabrication of the Periclean Myth (18th to 21st Centuries) 192
19. Notes 227
20. Bibliography 265
21. Index 287