Join a fascinating online lecture by Classical scholar Paul Cartledge.
Join a fascinating online lecture by classical scholar Paul Cartledge, emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, about Pericles. Born to an aristocratic family circa 495 and dying in 429 BCE during the plague in Athens, he is famous for being a leading figure in antiquity. A fervent believer in Democracy as the preeminent form of good government lauded in his famed Funeral Oration, he was likewise instrumental in the construction of the Parthenon which made tangible his political convictions as well as supportive of a wide range of cultural endeavors. But the question remains: was he a statesman or a demagogue? In this program, Professor Cartledge further explores how Pericles might appear eccentric within the public sphere complicated by a private life involving his renown mistress Aspasia.
From Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Book Two: “If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences…if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition."
Join a fascinating online lecture by Classical scholar Paul Cartledge.
Join a fascinating online lecture by classical scholar Paul Cartledge, emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, about Pericles. Born to an aristocratic family circa 495 and dying in 429 BCE during the plague in Athens, he is famous for being a leading figure in antiquity. A fervent believer in Democracy as the preeminent form of good government lauded in his famed Funeral Oration, he was likewise instrumental in the construction of the Parthenon which made tangible his political convictions as well as supportive of a wide range of cultural endeavors. But the question remains: was he a statesman or a demagogue? In this program, Professor Cartledge further explores how Pericles might appear eccentric within the public sphere complicated by a private life involving his renown mistress Aspasia.
From Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Book Two: “If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences…if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition."
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