Pericles: Statesman, Demagogue, Eccentric
Paul Cartledge gives the British School at Athens Friends' lecture on Pericles — the man behind the adjective, read as statesman, as demagogue and as eccentric.
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Pericles is one of the few ancient Greeks whose name became an adjective. Periclean Athens, even Periclean Greece: the shorthand does a great deal of work, and Paul Cartledge’s lecture is about what it conceals. Statesman, demagogue and eccentric are offered as three readings of one career rather than a verdict on it.
Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, and Emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture — the scholar most often asked to explain classical Athens to people who are not classicists, and the reason this particular Friends’ lecture fills a room.
It is given for the British School at Athens, the British institute in Greece since 1886, in Room 264 at Senate House in Bloomsbury. Six until seven, and the School’s autumn programme moves to Athens after it.