Among these was Aspasia of Miletus, who was the mistress of Pericles and is said to have debated with Socrates himself.

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

Among the most famous were Thargelia, a renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times ; Aspasia, companion of Pericles ; Archeanassa, companion of Plato ; the famous Neaira ; Thaïs, a concubine of Ptolemy, who was one of the generals on the expeditions of Alexander the Great and later became king of Egypt ; Lais of Corinth, the famed beauty who lived during the Peloponnesian War ; Lais of Hyccara, a courtesan who is said to have provided her services to the philosopher Diogenes free of charge ; and the famously beautiful Phryne, the model and muse of the sculptor Praxiteles.

Among his productions were an influential Pericles, Prince of Tyre and a staging of The Lighthouse by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies.

In the 5th century BC, principally as seen through the figure of Pericles, the generals could be among the most powerful people in the polis.

Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (; Hippokrátēs ; c. 460 BC – c. 370 BC ) was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles ( Classical Greece ), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

Judging by the number of reprints, Hamlet appears to have been Shakespeare's fourth most popular play during his lifetime — only Henry IV Part 1, Richard III and Pericles eclipsed it.

Later historians provided yet another case of eponymy by referring to the period of Fifth-century Athens as The Age of Pericles after its most influential statesman Pericles.

* The ostracism of Kimon and the murder of Ephialtes leave Pericles as the most influential orator in Athens.

With its enemies under its feet and its political fortunes guided by statesman and orator Pericles, Athens produced some of the most influential and enduring cultural artifacts of the Western tradition.

She spent most of her adult life in Athens, and she may have influenced Pericles and Athenian politics.

gave increased attention to the examination of quarto editions of Shakespearean plays published before the First Folio ( 1623 ). Pericles was among the most notorious " bad quartos.

Of the speeches, the most famous is the funeral oration of Pericles, which is found in Book Two.

" Pericles and Aspasia ", which was to become one of his most appreciated works was published in March 1836.

Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias, The leading statesman of this period was Pericles, who used the tribute paid by the members of the Delian League to build the Parthenon and other great monuments of classical Athens.

The name of the suburb dates back to ancient Athens and the most prominent " Χολαργεύς " ( citizen of Cholargos ) was Pericles.

Some of these plays ( such as Pericles ) are believed by most scholars of Shakespeare to have been written by him ( at least in part ).

Berlin traced positive liberty from Aristotle's definition of citizenship, which is historically derived from the social role of the freemen of classical Athens: it was, Berlin argued, the liberty in choosing their government granted to citizens, and extolled, most famously, by Pericles.

At the end of the first year of the war, Pericles gave his famous Funeral Oration ( 431 BC ).

The famous statesman Pericles also commissioned several sculptures for Athens from him in 447 BC, to celebrate Greek victory against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon during the Greco-Persian Wars ( 490 BC ).

Funeral orations, such as the famous speech put into the mouth of Pericles by Thucydides, also partook of the nature of panegyrics.

400 BC ) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles.

Pericles in his famous Funeral Oration said that the Athenians " cultivate … knowledge without effeminacy ( malakia )".

Scholars are convinced the play targeted Pericles, due to a famous reference to Aspasia.

The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

Athenian citizens had to be descended from citizens — after the reforms of Pericles and Cimon in 450 BC on both sides of the family, excluding the children of Athenian men and foreign women.

In 454 BC, the Athenian general Pericles moved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia.

In the mid-5th century BC, when the Athenian Acropolis became the seat of the Delian League and Athens was the greatest cultural centre of its time, Pericles initiated an ambitious building project that lasted the entire second half of the century.

The Athenian strategy was initially guided by the strategos, or general, Pericles, who advised the Athenians to avoid open battle with the far more numerous and better trained Spartan hoplites, relying instead on the fleet.

Under the guidance of Pericles, the Delian league gradually evolved into the Athenian Empire, the zenith of Athenian power and influence.

The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world.

* 457 BC: Athenian statesman Pericles ' greatest reform, allowing common people to serve in any state office, inaugurates Golden Age of Ancient Athens.

Athenian leader, Pericles, does not seriously oppose them, rather withdrawing the rural population of the country districts within Athens ' city walls.

* Pericles leads Athenian forces in the expulsion of barbarians from the Thracian peninsula of Gallipoli, in order to establish Athenian colonists in the region.

Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as " the first citizen of Athens ".

* Aspasia ( 469 BC-409 BC ), lover of the Athenian statesman Pericles

When he first left the ecclesia ( the Athenian Assembly ) disheartened, an old man named Eunomus encouraged him, saying his diction was very much like that of Pericles.

** Pericles, Athenian politician ( d. 429 BC )

* 429 BC – Pericles, Athenian statesman ( epidemic )

* 457 Pericles, Athenian statesman begins Golden Age, he was taught by Anaxagoras, who believed in dualistic Universe and atoms

* 429 Pericles dies of Athenian Plague, possibly typhus or bubonic plague

* Pericles, Athenian politician ( d. 429 BC )

The Athenian generals ( including Pericles ' son ) are put to death.

* Ephialtes, with the support of Pericles, reduces the power of the Athenian Council of Areopagus ( filled with ex-archons and so a stronghold of oligarchy ) and transfers them to the people, i. e. the Council of Five Hundred, the Assembly and the popular law courts.

* An Athenian law sponsored by Pericles is passed giving citizenship only to those born of Athenian parents.