Periclean

[ per-i-klee-uhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or relating to Pericles or to the period Periclean Age when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.

Periclean

/ ˌpɛrɪˈkliːən /

of or relating to Pericles or to the period when Athens was the intellectual and artistic leader of the Greek city-states

First recorded in 1815–25; Pericle(s) + -an

To the Athenians of the Periclean age Sophocles was the incarnation of their dramatic ideal.

But, if the western room of the Periclean temple was the opisthodomos, where was the proper?

It must have been the habitual temper of mind in any Periclean symposium or Caesarean salon.

Soon after the death of Alexander the humiliation of Athens and its old Periclean spirit was complete.

You will have ample material; his oratory is not of the Periclean type.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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