THE BASICS: PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE, a rarely performed play (it’s a first for SiDP) by William Shakespeare and Thomas Wilkins, directed by Scott McKenna Campbell, starring Sean Patrick Ryan as ...

One of the victims of the plague that swept Athens in 430 BC was Pericles himself. According to the historian Thucydides: '...The plague seized Pericles, not with sharp and violent fits, but with a ...

On the eve of his conception sometime in 495 BC, Pericles’ mother Agariste dreamed of giving birth to a lion. It was then, months later, Pericles was born. Pericles (495 BC – 429 BC) was a legend ...

A painting depicting a debate between Socrates and Athenian statesman Pericles’ wife, Aspasia, by Nicolas André Monsiaux, circa 1800. Aspasia is one of the most enigmatic figures of ancient Greece: a ...

Digital depictions of Cleisthenes, the architect of Athenian democracy, addressing the citizens of Athens and laying the foundations for a radical new political system based on equality. Credit: Greek ...

Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Cæsar and Antony ...