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 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...

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 ...

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.

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

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 ...

Tom Kitten began his racing career at Godolphin’s Flemington stables with two unplaced runs two years ago, before moving up to Sydney where he won the G1 Spring Champion Stakes at three before another ...

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.