CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PASSAGES TRANSLATED xi
4. ILLUSTRATIONS xv
5. ABBREVIATIONS AND PRIMARY SOURCES xvii
6. PREFACE xxi
7. Introduction: A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATHENS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY 1
8. CHRONOLOGY 8
9. THE LIFE OF PERICLES 14
10. The Primary Sources
11. Pericles’ Writings 27
12. The Archaeological Evidence 32
13. Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles I: Prelude to War 45
14. Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles II: The First Campaign and the Funeral Oration 61
15. Thucydides’ Portrait of Pericles III: Plague, Last Speech, and Final Tribute 79
16. Aristophanes and Old Comedy: Caricature and Personal Attack 96
17. Herodotus 109
18. Protagoras 116
19. Sophocles’ Oedipus: In the Image of Pericles 119
20. Lysias, Xenophon, and Plato 128
21. Plutarch and the Biographical Tradition 143
22. Afterword: The Legend of Pericles 150
23. Appendix: The Dryden Translation of Plutarch’s Life of Pericles 157
24. Recommended Reading 201
25. Glossary 203
26. Index 215