pericles

But there was one politician who avoided this fate. His name was Pericles.

Back in the time of Pericles, what did the winners of the Olympics wear?

War was the life of the city and its pride, as Pericles argued.

It killed Pericles, the leader of Athens, in the autumn of that very same year, 429 BCE.

Of course, these words bring to mind Pericles' funeral oration over the war dead as it is recorded in Thucydides.

We had a German king who came to Greece from Bavaria, and the Germans decided they were going to resurrect the Athens of Pericles.

These values Pericles says enables Athens to provide a shining beacon of freedom and decency to the Greek world and now to our own times too.

You also had statesmen like Pericles, whose famous funeral oration brags about the golden democracy of Athens with rhetoric that wouldn’t sound out of place today.

We talk about the " golden age of comedy" – the period of time when the best comedies were written – or the " golden age of Greek literature, " during the time of Pericles, say.

FINE. TROUBLE RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY WITH A CAPITAL T AND THAT RHYMES WITH P AND THAT STANDS FOR PELOPONNESE. Pericles’s funeral oration comes from a later war, The Peloponnesian War, a thirty year conflict between the Athenians and the Spartans.