Pericles

Examples

• Convinced of his security from Persia, Pericles spent the war hoard of the allies upon the beautification of his city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So I thought, if the volcano had kept quiet since the days of Pericles, it would surely keep quiet for the next thousand years. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In the age of Pericles scarcely the first stone of our comparatively tremendous cairn of things recorded and proved had been put in place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One gathers that Pericles was superior in his demeanour; he betrayed at times a contempt for the citizens he served. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They had no Themistocles, or Pericles, or Aeschylus, or Sophocles, or Socrates, or Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• The Republic of Plato, like the Athens of Pericles, has an artistic as well as a political side. Plato. The Republic.
• Plutarch accuses Pericles of bringing it on, because he felt his popularity waned so fast that a war was needed to make him indispensable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They threw dirt steadily and industriously at Pericles and his friends. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Pericles was portrayed in a helmet; a helmet became him, and it is to be feared he knew as much. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Athens, prospering for a time after the Persian repulse, was smitten by the plague, in which Pericles, its greatest ruler, died (428 B.C.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In Pericles there was mingled in the strangest fashion political ability with a real living passion for deep and high and beautiful things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Where are Dionysius and Serapion, and Pericles, and Decius? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then the sister of Pericles died, and then his last legitimate son. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Pericles was content, at any rate, to serve as a leader in Athens rather than to dominate as a tyrant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The reader must bear in mind that illuminating remark of Winckler's, which says that this renascent Athens bore for a time the face of Pericles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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