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Orators --- Statesmen --- Speakers --- Elocutionists --- Pericles, --- Pericle, --- Perikl, --- Perikles, --- Perykles, --- Athens (Greece) --- History.

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Perikles, - 499-429 B.C - Friends and associates. --- Statesmen - Greece - Athens - Biography. --- Orators - Greece - Athens - Biography.

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Statesmen --- Orators --- Speakers --- Elocutionists --- Pericles, --- Thucydides. --- Pericle, --- Perikl, --- Perikles, --- Perykles, --- Greece --- History --- Statesmen - Greece - Athens - Biography. --- Orators - Greece - Athens - Biography.

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Edith Foster compares Thucydides' narrative explanations and descriptions of the Peloponnesian War in Books One and Two of the History with the arguments about warfare and war materials offered by the Athenian statesman Pericles in those same books. In Thucydides' narrative presentations, she argues, the aggressive deployment of armed force is frequently unproductive or counterproductive, and even the threat to use armed force against others causes consequences that can be impossible for the aggressor to predict or contain. By contrast, Pericles' speeches demonstrate that he shared with many other figures in the History a mistaken confidence in the power, glory, and reliability of warfare and the instruments of force. Foster argues that Pericles does not speak for Thucydides, and that Thucydides should not be associated with Pericles' intransigent imperialism.

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As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as representative of values like liberty and equality, Loren J. Samons, II demonstrates that the quest to make Athens the preeminent power in Greece served as the central theme of Pericles' career. More nationalist than humanist and less rationalist than populist, Pericles' vision for Athens rested on the establishment of an Athenian reputation for military success and the citizens' willingness to sacrifice in the service of this goal. Despite his own aristocratic (if checkered) ancestry, Pericles offered the common and collective Athenian people the kind of fame previously available only to heroes and nobleman, a goal made all the more attractive because of the Athenians' defensiveness about Athens' lackluster early history.

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