Some megalomaniacs bequeath their names to a city, like Léopoldville or Constantinople. Most great men settle for a statue or a street sign. But a few, a very few, are immortalised as the epithet of ...

Through the course of Western history, only a few leaders have so dominated their eras as to lend them an adjectival label. England had its Elizabethan age, Rome its Augustan. But first came Periclean ...

French scholar Azoulay reassesses the life and legacy of the legendary Athenian orator and statesman who represents Greece’s golden age. Striking a balance between adulation and hypercriticism, the ...

Pericles' plan to defeat Sparta seemed to have taken account of everything. With a fleet of 300 triremes; 13,000 hoplite infantrymen; 1,200 cavalry and16,000 reserves; the Athenians believed ...

In the year 431 BC Pericles stood before the popular assembly and urged them to make a momentous decision: 'If we go to war, as I think we must, be determined that we are not going to climb down. For ...

Greek opinion is divided over the government’s plan to offer the Parthenon and other heritage sites as film and photo backdrops to raise revenue during its current economic crisis. “This is sacrilege!