Word: periclean
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...summer, men will be able to study the classics without a knowledge of Latin and Greek. In what may prove to be one of the deepest results of the war on Harvard education, the Classics Department will begin to offer courses on such topics as "Athenean Democracy in the Periclean Age" with reading entirely in English. By this type of antiquity more available to the student not interested in devoting his College career to the classics...
...golden Greece the Periclean playgoer knew by heart the Pride & Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (???is) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...Periclean Institutions", Professor Ferguson, Emerson...
...Periclean Institutions", Professor Ferguson, Emerson...
...Parthenon marble for doorsteps and pigpens. A hundred years ago Lord Elgin stole great masses of the sculpture for the British Museum in London, to save them from "local vandalism." Byron berated him. The Greek Government, belatedly renascent, is now reconstructing the torn Parthenon in the semblance of its periclean perfection...