Pericles
1.A mixture of Socrates, Pericles, Mahomet, Pliny the Younger and Augustin Thierry.
2.In Pericles (1608-1609), one fisherman asks another fisherman, “How the fishes live in sea?”
3.Who are your favorite characters in history? A mixture of Socrates, Pericles, Mahomet, Pliny the Younger and Augustin Thierry.
4.Greek historian. Considered the greatest historian of antiquity, he wrote a critical history of the Peloponnesian War that contains the funeral oration of Pericles.
5.Thucydides, himself an Athenian general who was sacked for his alleged failures at the battle of Amphipolis, judged the Athenians to be rash and mercurial after the death of Pericles.
6.The Parthenon and other main buildings on the Acropolis were built by Pericles in the fifth century BC as a monument to the cultural and political achievements of the inhabitants of Athens.
