Periclean
Adjective
Meaning
Periclean (not comparable)
Of or relating to Pericles, an Ancient Greek politician, or to the golden age of art and literature in Athens.
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Examples
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers' back pages.
Kagan believes that Cimon adapted himself to the new conditions and promoted a political marriage between Periclean liberals and Cimonian conservatives.
On the other hand, Platias and Koliopoulos reject these criticisms and state that "the Athenians lost the war only when they dramatically reversed the Periclean grand strategy that explicitly disdained further conquests".
It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides ; and the most detailed accounts of the system are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system.
Koliopoulos, Thucydides on Strategy, 138 Hanson stresses that the Periclean strategy was not innovative, but could lead to a stagnancy in favor of Athens.
Since Periclean times, jurists were compensated for their sitting in court, with the amount of one day's wages.