The battle of ideas had led to some unlikely friendships that cut across personal and class differences, such as between the socially alert Pericles and the unworldly Anaxagoras, and between the handsome aristocrat, Alcibiades, and the ugly plebeian, Socrates.

In 1608, Wilkins published a prose narrative of Pericles which contains several lines that seem to recall specific lines in the play, leading to the conclusion that his editing of the play led him to the composition of the prose.

He was visited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and worked on the conversations which led to the volumes upon " Shakespeare's Examinations for Deer Stealing ", " Pericles and Aspasia ", and the " Pentameron ".

The Athenian general Pericles recommended that his city fight a defensive war, avoiding battle against the superior land forces led by Sparta, and importing everything needful by maintaining its powerful navy.

Cimon also led the Athenian aristocratic party against Pericles and opposed the democratic revolution of Ephialtes seeking to retain aristocratic party control over Athenian institutions.

After the death of Pericles, Athens was led by a succession of leaders Thucydides described as incompetent or weak leaders.

Six motorboats entered the bay, led by Lieutenant Luigi Faggioni, and attacked three targets in pairs ; the first was York, second the tanker Pericles and last another ship at anchor.

* The Spartan army retires, so Pericles crosses back to Euboea with 50 ships and 5, 000 soldiers, cracking down any opposition.

The treasury was originally held on the island of Delos but Pericles moved it to Athens under the pretext that Delos wasn't safe enough.

Kimon is charged by Pericles and other democratic politicians with having been bribed not to attack the King of Macedonia ( who may have been suspected of covertly helping the Thasian rebels ).

Pericles, Aspasia and their friends were not immune from attack, as preeminence in democratic Athens was not equivalent to absolute rule.

He gained Pericles ' support and sailed to Cyprus with two hundred triremes of the Delian League.

Around 430 – 424 BC, a devastating plague, which some believe to have been typhoid fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader Pericles.

Pericles ( 1609 ) and The Two Noble Kinsmen ( 1634 ) also appeared separately before their inclusions in folio collections ( the Shakespeare Third Folio and the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio, respectively ).

Popular plays like 1 Henry IV and Pericles were reprinted in their quarto editions even after the First Folio appeared, sometimes more than once.

R. J. Buck suggests that Thrasybulus, who came of age in the heady days when the democracy and empire under Pericles were at their fullest extent, never accepted that the devastating losses Athens had suffered in the Peloponnesian War made the return of those times impossible.

Alcibiades thereby, through his mother, belonged to the powerful and controversial family of the Alcmaeonidae ; the renowned Pericles and his brother Ariphron were Deinomache's cousins, as her father and their mother were siblings.

Led by Pericles, the Athenians subdued the revolt, and captured Histiaea in the north of the island for their own settlement.

Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles ' olive-wood club.

In previous ages they had been the heads of the Athenian state, but in the Age of Pericles they lost their influence and power, although they still presided over tribunals.

After Pericles ' death in 429 BC, Nicias became an important Athenian politician with the aristocratic ( conservative ) party looking to him as their leader.

The editors of the 1986 Oxford Edition of Shakespeare make the assumption that Wilkins was the co-author of Pericles and draw heavily upon The Painful Adventures in their controversial reconstructed text of the play.

The generous Pericles gives the governor of the city, Cleon, and his wife Dionyza, grain from his ship to save their people.

However, only those wealthy enough to spend much of their time away from home would have been able to participate until Pericles ' reforms in early 451-2 BCE allowing payment for jurors.

Some of their power under Solon was delegated to the Court by Pericles in his reforms.

Cleon had succeeded Pericles as the dominant speaker in the assembly and increasingly he was able to manipulate the courts for political and personal ends, especially in the prosecution of public officials for mismanagement of their duties.

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.

( 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.

They concluded that disease that killed the Greeks and their military and political leader, Pericles, was typhus.

The league demanded submission to create a unified Greece, the only problem is that instead of creating a standing army or improved military strength to prevent further invasion, the Athenians under the direction of Pericles started the periclean building projects that squandered funds and glorified Athens and Greece in their defeat of Persia.

The 49th season in 2012 will be Love's Labour's Lost, and in 2013 their 50th Season will be celebrated with A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pericles

Pericles grudgingly agrees, and decides to stop at Tarsus because he fears that Marina may not survive the storm.

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.

This conjunction of equality with liberty would apply both to supporters of democracy like Pericles or opponents, like Plato.

His writings attracted the notice of Pericles, who offered to provide for his maintenance, if he would come and reside with him ; but Simon refused, on the grounds that he did not wish to surrender his independence.

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.

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

The tragedy was performed in 472 BC in Athens, eight years after the battle of Salamis, when the war with Persia was still in progress: the voice of Aeschylus was so a powerful propaganda tool, and not surprisingly, the choregos of Persians was Pericles.

According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch he fled to Lampsacus due to a backlash against his pupil Pericles.

Pericles learned to love and admire him, and the poet Euripides derived from him an enthusiasm for science and humanity.

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.

About 450 BC, according to Laertius, Pericles spoke in defense of Anaxagoras at his trial.

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

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

In 472 BC, Aeschylus staged the production that included the Persians, with Pericles serving as choregos.

The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.

In 461 BC, Cimon was ostracized and was succeeded in his influence by democrats such as Ephialtes and Pericles.

However, Plutarch indicates that many of Pericles ' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as usurping monetary resources to fund elaborate building projects.

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.

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.

After winning at Eurymedon in 468 BC, Cimon and Themistocles ordered the reconstruction of its southern and northern walls, and Pericles entrusted the building of the Parthenon to Ictinus and Callicrates, under the general direction of Phidias.

In the Plague of Athens, the city lost possibly one third of its population, including Pericles.

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.

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.