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 ...

In the year 431 BC Pericles stood before the popular assembly and urged them to make a momentous decision: 'If we go to war, as I think we must, be determined that we are not going to climb down.

Pericles, in an attempt to win the hand of the daughter of King Antiochus, accepts a challenge from the king. He must answer a riddle to win her hand but if he fails, he will be put to death.

In the words of Pericles, the hero of the play the company’s doing there now, “I see that Time’s the king of men, / He’s both their parent, and he is their grave, / And gives them what he ...

After the dead had been buried in a public grave, one of the leading citizens, chosen by the city, would offer a suitable speech, and on this occasion Pericles was chosen. The Funeral Oration has ...

Allegheny College President Ron Cole was named board chair of Project Pericles, a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to including participatory citizenship and social ...

SOP 100 will focus on collecting and recording the organization’s history and fundraising for several educational & ...