Pericles

  • Cup Used by Perikles?

    As folks have probably already seen, the interwebs are burning up with the discovery — apparently — of a cup used by Pericles.  eKathimerini’s coverage seems to embrace all the coverage making it to the English press: A cup believed to have been used by Classical Greek statesman Pericles has been found in a pauper’s…

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  • Back to February now … not sure if I even mentioned on Twitter this OpEd in the LA Times by James Romm on Pericles’ ‘statue stripping’ strategy back in the day of a different sort of crisis: Greeks today might ask: What would Pericles do? (LA Times)

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