Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copies
A pencil drawing of a marble bust of Pericles, shown wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on his head. The helmet symbolised his military role as strategos (General). Roman copy 2nd century AD.Size 58,42cm., inscribed ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ, British Museum, provenance Townley collection.
Pericles (Greek : Περικλής ; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age – specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.
Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, a contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire, and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Golden Age of Pericles". He promoted the arts and literature; it is principally through his efforts that Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world.
He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified and protected the city and exhibited its glory.
