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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION TO PERICLES. After the banishment of Themistocles the war with Persia continued for a few years, but the Persians never ventured back to Greece. And now, by the victories of Marathon and Salamis, and by the leading part she had taken all through the war, Athens had gained great glory, and came to be looked up to quite as much as Sparta, as the head of the Grecian states. The cities of the mainland still followed Sparta; but the islands and maritime towns gathered themselves into a league, and made Athens the head of it. The place of meeting for the league, and its treasury, were in Delos, a small island of the JEgean Sea, and it was called the Confederacy of Delos; but it was all under the control of Athens, and Athens now became very rich and powerful, carried on wars in many parts, ? some of them very unjust ones, ? and built magnificent temples, adorning them with beautiful sculpture and painting. It was the most splendid period of art that the world has ever known; and because the most influential citizen of Athens was named Pericles, this period of Athenian prosperity is called the Age of Pericles. PERICLES. TDERICLES was of the noblest birth, both on his father's -- and mother's side. Damon, his teacher, being a sophist, out of policy, sheltered himself under the profession of music, to conceal from people in general his skill in other things, and under this pretence attended Pericles, the young athlete of politics, so to say, as his training-master in these exercises. Damon's lyre, however, did not prove altogether a successful blind; he was banished the country by ostracism for ten years, as a dangerous intermeddler and a favorer of arbitrary power. Pericles also was a hearer of Zeno, who treated of natural philosophy, and also perfected himself ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217844949 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217844944 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 196 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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