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Perikles

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Also known as Perikl, Perykles

politicus, redenaar en strategos uit het oude Athene (494-429 v.Chr.)

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Pericles was a male human born in Athens in either 494 BCE or 495 BCE. He was a member of the Alcmaeonidae family, the son of Xanthippus and Agariste, and the father of Pericles the Younger. A citizen of Classical Athens, he worked as a politician, military personnel, statesperson, and orator. He spoke and wrote Ancient Greek.

He participated in the First Peloponian War and the Samian War. Pericles died in Athens in 429 BCE due to the Plague of Athens, resulting from natural causes. He was married to Aspasia. His life and works are described in sources such as Parallel Lives, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and The Nuttall Encyclopædia. He is present in the work Civilization VI.

Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
21

Top works

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1969-06-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,213
Total plays
34,984

Tags

skapunkhardcorepunk rockcommunity records

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So many Pericles songs roll by fast and leave you going back to sing along. Other songs show off an impressive, more mellow sound. Lyrically, their music focuses on many topics: from consumerism and our lack of involvement in a better world, to veganism and the bands’ inevitable struggle with moving from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to the States in order to become a successful touring act. Pericles is one of the hardest working bands on Community Records and you deserve to hear them. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pericles">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
  • Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
  • The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
  • Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
  • Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
  • Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

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Key facts

Military person.name
Pericles
Military person.image
Pericles Pio-Clementino Inv269 n2.jpg
Military person.caption
Bust of Pericles bearing the inscription "Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian". Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from , Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums,
Military person.death_date
429 BC (aged 66)
Military person.birth_place
Athens, Greece
Military person.death_place
Athens, Greece
Military person.allegiance
Athens
Military person.rank
Strategos
Military person.battles
First Peloponnesian War Battles of Sicyon and Acarnania Second Sacred War Samian War Peloponnesian War
Military person.children
Paralus and Xanthippus Pericles the Younger
Military person.relations
Xanthippus (father) Agariste (mother)

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Article · Nederlands

Perikles (ca. 495–429 v.Chr., Oudgrieks: Περικλῆς / Periklēs, "omringd door glorie") was een prominent en invloedrijk staatsman, redenaar en generaal in Athene, van de phyle Akamantis en de deme Cholargos. Hij was de zoon van Xanthippos en Agariste. Via haar stamde hij af van de machtige familie van de Alkmaioniden. Hij leefde tijdens de bloeiperiode van zijn stad, de periode tussen de Perzische en Peloponnesische Oorlog. Perikles had zo'n grote invloed op de Atheense samenleving dat Thoukydides, een contemporain historicus en zijn bewonderaar, hem "de eerste man in Athene" noemt. Perikles vormde de Delisch-Attische Zeebond om tot een "Atheens rijk" en leidde zijn landgenoten tijdens de eerste twee jaar van de Peloponnesische Oorlog. De periode waarin hij Athene leidde, ruwweg vanaf 461 tot 429 v.Chr., staat bekend als de "Eeuw van Perikles", hoewel deze periode kan teruggaan tot de Perzische Oorlogen of tot de eeuw voordien. Perikles bevorderde de kunsten en literatuur. Dit was de voornaamste reden waarom Athene de reputatie heeft het culturele centrum van de oud-Griekse wereld te zijn. Hij begon een ambitieus project waarvoor de meeste van de overgebleven structuren op de Akropolis (waaronder het Parthenon) zijn gebouwd. Dit project verfraaide de stad, droeg haar roem uit en gaf werk aan de mensen. Bovendien stimuleerde Perikles de Atheense democratie in die mate dat hij een demagoog (δημαγωγὸς / dēmagōgòs) werd genoemd, al was deze term toentertijd nog neutraal.

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