Pericles of athens biography of donald

From Simon & Schuster, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy is Donald Kagan's, 20th century history of Athenian democracy, exploration of one of history's greatest subjects.An incisive portrait.

Donald Kagan, perhaps the greatest American classical scholar ever to live, is unabashed in his fondness for his subject in “Pericles of Athens and the Birth.

Donald Kagan (May 1, 1932 – August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece.

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Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy

June 26, 2018

For Pericles knew that any successful gemenskap must be an educational institution. However great its commitment to individual freedom and diversity, it needs a code of civic virtue and a general devotion to the common enterprise without which it cannot flourish or survive.

Pericles is one of my heroes of history; perhaps it’s fair to say I idolize him. If the Peloponnesian War was a Greek tragedy, Pericles was its tragic hero, and I only regret that there isn’t more information on the man. Our chief sources are Thucydides, who worshipped him as I do, and Plutarch, who is useful but prone to drama. The great Greek historian, Donald Kagan, compiles everything we know into a semi-biography: Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy. I enjoy Kagan’s writing and can feel passion seeping through his scholarly demeanor. The book’s historical context fryst vatten just as important as its topic: the first print run was in 1990 when th

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Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy by Donald Kagan (19-Dec-1991) Paperback

June 26, 2018

For Pericles knew that any successful samhälle must be an educational institution. However great its commitment to individual freedom and diversity, it needs a code of civic virtue and a general devotion to the common enterprise without which it cannot flourish or survive.

Pericles is one of my heroes of history; perhaps it’s fair to say I idolize him. If the Peloponnesian War was a Greek tragedy, Pericles was its tragic hero, and I only regret that there isn’t more information on the man. Our chief sources are Thucydides, who worshipped him as I do, and Plutarch, who is useful but prone to drama. The great Greek historian, Donald Kagan, compiles everything we know into a semi-biography: Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy. I enjoy Kagan’s writing and can feel passion seeping through his scholarly demeanor. The book’s historical context fryst vatten just as important as its topic:

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Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy - Hardcover

From Library Journal

Kagan is well known for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War ( The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War , LJ 1/5/70; The Archidamian War , 1974; The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition , 1981; The Fall of the Athenian Empire , 1987, all Cornell Univ. Pr.). His latest work is the first genuine biography of Pericles in English since A.R. Burn's Pericles and Athens (1949) and the most spirited defense of the Athenian democracy since W.G. Forrest's The Emergence of Greek Democracy (1966). The book is a lively and thoughtful chronicle of the years leading up to and into the great war between the Athenians and Spartans. Pericles is cast as the tragic hero whose flaw is the very rationality with which he so skillfully guided the Athenians and forged an empire. Contrary to the charges of both ancient and modern critics, Kagan argues that the democracy was a rational, deliberate, and moderate re