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1) Pericles
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Likely written around 1607 or 1608 and attributed at least in part to Shakespeare, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" is an adventure-filled play that follows the extended sailing journeys of a young prince. Pericles, a young prince from Phoenicia, is forced to flee Antioch when he correctly guesses a riddle that reveals the incestuous activity of King Antiochus. Unable to stay at home in Tyre because of Antiochus' vengeance, he sails away and ends up shipwrecked...
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Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's play, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre", featuring a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare. In "Pericles", a father loses his wife, who dies at sea during childbirth. Upon land, Pericles entrusts his new-born daughter, Marina, to the Governor of Tarsus and his wife. Fourteen years later, Marina escapes a deadly plan, devised by the jealous Governor's...
3) Pericles
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Pericles (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by William Shakespeare
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for...
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The Great Courses
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2018.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The funeral procession was the most important ceremony performed in ancient Athens. Pericles's funeral speech, delivered over the war dead, as captured by Thucydides, is one of the most striking pieces of prose to survive from that time. Witness the structure of the funeral ceremony and unpack Pericles's great speech.
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Vincent Azoulay is assistant professor of ancient Greek history at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and a leading expert on the politics of classical Greece.
The definitive biography of the legendary "first citizen of Athens"
Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political...
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Ambrose Video
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1984.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (178 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. ". . . I see that Time's the king of men, He's both their parent, and he is their grave. And gives them what he will, not what they crave." When Pericles discovers...
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The Great Courses
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2018.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Pericles is one of the most fascinating political leaders of all time. Here, survey his life and witness some of the great moments in his rule. Professor Garland takes you beyond the dates and battles to show you what Pericles the man might have been in life, including scandals in his domestic life.
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Two lovers crest the wave of the golden age of Athens: Pericles, statesman and general, and Aspasia, his courtesan, a philosopher's daughter and a brilliant woman in her own right. In a world of hierarchies, he is at the top when she arrives as little more than flotsam cast up on Athenian shores. Their love transcends social sanctions, enduring and deepening despite the grave threat it presents to Pericles' reputation as a leader of the Athenian democracy.
The...
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When the young Prince Pericles puzzles out a terrible secret about the king of Antioch, he flees the city to avoid the ruler's wrath and sets sail on his ship. His adventures bring him to Pentapolis, where his strength and courage win him a princess's hand in marriage. But as Pericles embarks on the voyage home with his wife, his greatest tragedies and triumphs still lay ahead.
Known as "The Bard of Avon," William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest...
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To understand true democracy, we need to go back to the people who invented it: the ancient Athenians. The greatest champion of democracy was Pericles, one of the most remarkable figures in history. What can we learn from Pericles and ancient Greek culture? Donald J. Trump is no Pericles. However, he is a political outsider, and not part of the Washington D.C. establishment. We need a change. Any change at all is now desirable. It's time for democracy...
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Pericles fue el líder más famoso de la democracia griega, y quizá el más controvertido. ¿Fue realmente un imperialista sin escrúpulos, dispuesto a oprimir al resto de Grecia, o más bien un defensor de Atenas, que solo reclamaba respeto para su pueblo ante un mundo hostil? Su preparación intelectual le permitió defender ideas que resultaban peligrosas a los ojos de sus contemporáneos, pero supo persuadirlos de un modo asombroso. ¿Cómo logró...
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La obra estudia las relaciones existentes entre la tragedia griega y la aparición y creación del sistema democrático en el seno de la ciudad griega (la polis), fundamentalmente en la Atenas del siglo V.
El gnosticismo fue un movimiento surgido en torno al s. IV d.
C., como un intento de crear una mitología nueva en la que se unían contenidos judeo.cristianos y especulaciones neoplatónicas y neopitagóricas. Pretendía ser la exposición de...
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The Golden Age of Athens was derived from the leadership of Pericles, politician extraordinaire. Readers will learn how one man moved his country to complete such works as building the Parthenon, Propylaea, and other projects, ending revolts against Athenian rule, leading Athens into the Peloponnesian War, and more, all while taking on various battles with domestic political rivals. This dynamic text utilizes call-outs to draw connections between...
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Los grandes autores del llamado "siglo de Pericles" fueron discípulos de los sofistas, aquellos maestros que en la retórica ofrecieron al mundo una nueva enseñanza, desarrollando el arte de razonar y abriendo también la vía a todas las formas del pensamiento libre. Con frecuencia atacados y vilipendiados por una tradición ingrata, era necesario analizar qué rol desempeñaron los sofistas en la formación de la cultrua occidental.Siempre brillante,...
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A year-long shift in the middle of the interstellar void can get pretty boring. For the Fourth shift crew of the starliner Pericles, enroute to Earth from one of the colony worlds, the passage could best be called routine.
Until the forward sensors detect an unknown and unexpected object ahead. What they find there, in the endless night of space, will forever change the universe, for them and for all mankind.
Assuming they survive to tell anyone...
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The funeral procession was the most important ceremony performed in ancient Athens. Pericles's funeral speech, delivered over the war dead, as captured by Thucydides, is one of the most striking pieces of prose to survive from that time. Witness the structure of the funeral ceremony and unpack Pericles's great speech.
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Nearly 300 speeches offer provocative themes, historic parallels, and memorable quotations: Socrates, Julius Caesar, St. Francis, Martin Luther, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Fulton J. Sheen, Barbara Jordan, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Earl of Spencer, and many others.
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Pericles is one of the most fascinating political leaders of all time. Here, survey his life and witness some of the great moments in his rule. Professor Garland takes you beyond the dates and battles to show you what Pericles the man might have been in life, including scandals in his domestic life.
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Take an overview of Greece's Classical Age, an astonishing period of human accomplishment, which the series will treat in detail. Explore defining events of the period, from the 479 BCE defeat of the Persians, through the period of the Peloponnesian War, to the emergence of Macedonia as a great power and the exploits of Alexander.
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