A body of Athenian colonists was accordingly sent out by Pericles, under the command of Lampon and Xenocritus ; but the number of Athenian citizens was small, the greater part of those who took part in the colony being collected from various parts of Greece.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.

The Persians was the second part of a trilogy that won the first prize at the dramatic competitions in Athens ’ City Dionysia festival in 472 BCE, with Pericles serving as choregos.

Phormio first appears in the historical record in 440 BC, when he shared with Pericles, Hagnon, and others the command of the Athenian fleet in the later part of the Samian War.

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

( 1904 ), containing a further instalment of their edition of the Behnesa papyri discovered by them in 1896-1897, one of the greatest curiosities is a scrap of paper bearing the argument of a play by Cratinus, the Dionysalexandros ( i. e. Dionysus in the part of Paris ), aimed against Pericles ; and the epitome reveals something of its wit and point.

The second panel contains the inscriptions: AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM, taken from the work of Laurence Binyon, and FREEDOM IS THE SURE POSSESSION OF THOSE ALONE WHO HAVE COURAGE TO DEFEND IT, from Pericles, as well as, in the lower portion, an armoured figure holding a flambeau, and, in the upper part, St. George slaying the dragon.

Shakespeare's play Pericles, Prince of Tyre was based in part on Gower's version, with the change of name probably inspired by Philip Sidney's Arcadia.

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.

Under Pericles, in 450 BC, restrictions were tightened so that a citizen had to be born from citizen parentage on both sides.

It was from tribute paid to the league that Pericles set to building the Parthenon on the Acropolis, replacing an older temple, as well as many other non-defense related expenditures.

To further strengthen Athens ' grip on its empire, Pericles in 450 began a policy of establishing cleruchiai — quasi-colonies that remained tied to Athens and which served as garrisons to maintain control of the League's vast territory.

Furthermore, Pericles employed a number of offices to maintain Athens ' empire: proxenoi, who fostered good relations between Athens and League members ; episkopoi and archontes, who oversaw the collection of tribute ; and hellenotamiai, who received the tribute on Athens ' behalf.

State graves were built on either side of the Dipylon Gate, for the interment of prominent personages such as notable warriors and statesmen, including Pericles and Cleisthenes.

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.

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A celebrated example is Pericles ' funeral oration, which heaps honour on the dead and includes a defence of democracy:

* Pericles commissions the architects Kallikrates and Iktinos to design a larger temple for the Parthenon and the construction begins on rebuilding the great temple of Athena ( the Parthenon ) on the Acropolis at Athens soon afterwards.

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

* 432 End of Golden Age, Athens under Pericles blockades Potidaea ( Battle of Potidaea ), Corfu declares war on Corinth ( Battle of Sybota )

Plutarch tells us that he superintended the great works of Pericles on the Acropolis.

* Pericles renews alliances with the Rhegium on the south west corner of Italy and Leontini in south-east Sicily, threatening Sparta's food supply route from Sicily.

* Under the leadership of Pericles, Athens introduces a series of measures ( the " Megarian decree ") imposing an economic embargo on Megara for violations of land sacred to Demeter.

* Anaxagoras is arrested by Pericles ' political opponents on a charge of contravening the established dogmas of Athenian religion.

* Pericles, concerned over the draining effect of years of war on Athenian manpower, looks for peace with the support of the Assembly.

* Pericles, the ruler of Athens, bestows generous wages on all Athens ' citizens who serve as jurymen on the Heliaia ( the supreme court of Athens ).

The ambitious new leader of the conservatives, Thucydides, accuses the leader of the democratic faction, Pericles, of profligacy and criticises the way Pericles is spending money on his ambitious building plans for the city.

Pericles responds by proposing to reimburse the city for all the expenses from his private property, on the condition that he would make the inscriptions of dedication in his own name.

* Pericles, concerned for Athenian trade with Greek settlements to the East, and in order to counteract a new and possibly threatening Thracian – Scythian alliance, leads Athens ' fleet to Pontus on the Black Sea and establishes friendly relations with the Greek cities of the region.

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.

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.

For Pericles he planned the arrangement of the harbour-town Piraeus at Athens in the middle of the fifth century BC.

Pericles governed Athens throughout the 5th century BC bringing to the city a splendour and a standard of living never previously experienced.

After the reforms of Ephialtes and Pericles in the mid-5th century BC, the boule took on many of the administrative and judicial functions of the Areopagus, which retained its traditional right to try homicide cases.

George Syncellus, a Byzantine chronicler of the eighth century, presents Mary as a teacher of Democritus, whom she met in Memphis, Egypt at the time of Pericles.

His production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the first regular revival of that play since the seventeenth century, emphasized spectacle in a way that set the pattern for many future productions.

The first published attempt at interpretation belongs to Cyriac of Ancona in the 15th century AD who referred to it as the “ victories of Athens in the time of Pericles ”.

The novel enjoyed a later influence in connection with the story tradition of Apollonius of Tyre — Eustathius ' scene of the storm at sea and the heroine offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( particularly in Act III ).

The threat from the Spartan army leads Pericles to arrange, by bribery and by negotiation, that Athens will give up its mainland possessions and confine itself to a largely maritime empire.

In a model like Pericles in Thucydides, or George Washington's farewell address in American History, the Venetian Doge Moncinego had long ago warned Venice not to overextended itself in a land empire.

Diogenes Laertius reports the story that he was prosecuted by Cleon for impiety, but Plutarch says that Pericles sent his former tutor, Anaxagoras, to Lampsacus for his own safety after the Athenians began to blame him for the Peloponnesian war.

In Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre Diana appears to Pericles in a vision, telling him to go to her temple and tell his story to her followers.

Modern editors generally agree that Shakespeare is responsible for almost exactly half the play — 827 lines — the main portion after scene 9 that follows the story of Pericles and Marina.