Pericles

Mordecai

I thought people in the literature thread might be able to help me: I'm looking for a book on Pericles of Athens, excluding Plutarch's work. Can anyone help me?
Thanks.

John

TCD's library gives the following hits for books on Pericles (I've never read any of them):

Pericles of Athens and the birth of democracy / Donald Kagan.
Author: Kagan, Donald, 1932-
Date: 1990.

Sophocles and Pericles.
Author: Ehrenberg, Victor, 1891-
Date: 1954.

What life was like at the dawn of democracy : classical Athens, 525-322 BC / by the editors of Time-Life Books ; [editor: Denise Dersin] ; [consultant: Jeremy McInerney].
Date: [c1997]

Perikles and his circle / Anthony J. Podlecki.
Author: Podlecki, A. J. (Anthony Joseph), 1936-
Date: 1998.

punka

From John2's list I'd suggest you start with Kagan, though I haven't read it this review is quite favourable. You might want to check out Kagan's recent book on the Peloponnesian War, that should be in most bookshops in hardback as it's fairly new. I assume you've already read Thucydides? If not that's a good place to start.

I also found these two titles, but I don't know anything about them:
A. R. Burn, Pericles and Athens
and
C. M. Bowra, Periclean Athens
Bowra in particular was a pretty eminent classicist and that might be a good place to start. Also whatever edition of Plutarch you have should give you some suggestions for recommended reading.

Mordecai

Thanks everybody. Thucydides is one of the best works I have ever read imo.