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Headword:
Periklês
Adler number: pi,1180
Translated headword: Perikles, Pericles
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Xanthippos and Agariste, an Athenian, rhetor and demagogue.[1] He is the first to have read a written speech in a lawcourt, those before his time having spoken extemporaneously. He was a pupil of
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, whom he saved from death.[2]
Periklês, Xanthippou kai Agaristês, Athênaios, rhêtôr kai dêmagôgos: hostis prôtos grapton logon en dikastêriôi eipe, tôn pro autou schediazontôn. ên de mathêtês Anaxagorou tou Klazomeniou: kai autos erusato auton ek thanatou.
Notes:
OCD4 Pericles(1). See also
pi 1178,
pi 1179,
pi 1181.
[1] On the term "demagogue" (not necessarily, at root, a derogatory one) see G.E.M. de Ste. Croix,
The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (Ithaca NY 1972) 359 n.4.
[2] For further sources and bibliography on the trial of
Anaxagoras (
alpha 1981) see Philip A. Stadter,
A Commentary on Plutarch's Pericles (Chapel Hill and London, 1989) on 32.2.
Translated by: Debra Hamel on 16 November 1998@23:44:54.
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