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Coles Athens: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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This sweeping chapter follows Athens at the height of its political brilliance and moral strain, with Pericles emerging as the calm, elusive statesman who shaped an age. His authority rests on broad consent: sailors, merchants, artisans, and thinkers all find their interests reflected in his leadership, while his character remains notably free of scandal. As aristocratic resistance gathers around Thucydides, Pericles answers not with force but with a deeper identification with the people, channeling public wealth into festivals, processions, art, and civic splendor that make democracy itself glitter like a rival to private nobility. The narrative then traces Athens' tightening imperial grip, from disputes over Delphi to campaigns in Boeotia and the harsh recovery of revolting Euboea. Defeats, truces, tribute, and allied lawsuits reveal both the brilliance and the corruption of empire. Thucydides is eventually ostracized, leaving Pericles unchallenged. The chapter closes in tragic grandeur with Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone: curses, exile, sacred death, and Antigone's steadfast burial of her brother become emblems of duty, fate, and divine justice. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
This sweeping chapter follows Athens at the height of its political brilliance and moral strain, with Pericles emerging as the calm, elusive statesman who shaped an age. His authority rests on broad consent: sailors, merchants, artisans, and thinkers all find their interests reflected in his leadership, while his character remains notably free of scandal. As aristocratic resistance gathers around Thucydides, Pericles answers not with force but with a deeper identification with the people, channeling public wealth into festivals, processions, art, and civic splendor that make democracy itself glitter like a rival to private nobility. The narrative then traces Athens' tightening imperial grip, from disputes over Delphi to campaigns in Boeotia and the harsh recovery of revolting Euboea. Defeats, truces, tribute, and allied lawsuits reveal both the brilliance and the corruption of empire. Thucydides is eventually ostracized, leaving Pericles unchallenged. The chapter closes in tragic grandeur with Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone: curses, exile, sacred death, and Antigone's steadfast burial of her brother become emblems of duty, fate, and divine justice. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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