Citations:Pericles

English citations of Pericles

• 1837, The Edinburgh Review: or Critical Journal, Volume 65‎^[1]:

  Sophocles indeed, in the calmness of his disposition, and the symmetry and stateliness of his genius, might almost be entitles the Pericles of poetry.

• 1859, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48‎^[2]:

  He was the Pericles of Geneva; or let us say that he was the Lycurgus of the Puritans.

• 1874 Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, "Littell's living age"

  When a Pericles was found to preach such doctrine and act upon it, a Cleon was sure to follow ...

• 1992 Michael Palmer, "Love of glory and the common good"

  Will it suffice for men of the stature of a Pericles or a Themistocles at the critical moment?

• 2005 John Uhr, "Terms of trust: arguments over ethics in Australian government"

  If Pericles models the best of political prudence, what might be a second-best solution when there is no Pericles at hand?

• 2007 Alden Hatch, "Franklin D. Roosevelt"

  Thus the new statesman might influence the thought of a mighty modern nation like a Pericles talking to his fellow-citizens in the agora at Athens.

• 2009, Ernest Henry Short, A History of Sculpture‎^[3]:

  Lorenzo was the Pericles of the Italian Renaissance.