Pericles: a sourcebook and reader

A brief history of Athens in the fifth century

Chronology

The life of Pericles

The primary sources

Pericles' writings

The archaeological evidence. Inscriptions and Ostraca ; Portrait busts ; The building program on the Acropolis

Thucydides' portrait of Pericles I: prelude to war

Thucydides' portrait of Pericles II: the first campaign and the funeral oration

Thucydides' portrait of Pericles III: plague, last speech, and final tribute

Aristophanes and old comedy: caricature and personal attack

Herodotus

Protagoras

Sophocles' Oedipus: in the image of Pericles

Lysias, Xenophon, and Plato

Plutarch and the biographical tradition

Afterword: the legend of Pericles.