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ANCIENT AUTHORITIES

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 147 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANCIENT AUTHORITIES .—Our See also:chief source must always remain See also:Thucydides (i. and ii. 1–65), whose insight into the See also:character and ideals of See also:Pericles places him far above all other authorities. The speeches which he puts into his mouth are of See also:special value in disclosing to us Pericles' inmost thoughts and aspirations (i. 140–144; ii. 35–46; H. 6o–64). Thucydides alone shows sympathy with Pericles, though, as J. B. See also:Bury points out (Ancient See also:Greek Historians, 1909, pp. 133 seq.), he was by no means a See also:blind admirer. Of other 5th-See also:century See also:sources, See also:Aristophanes is obviously a caricaturist, pseudo-See also:Xenophon (de republica Atheniensium) a See also:mere party pamphleteer. See also:Plato, while admiring Pericles' See also:intellect, accuses him of pandering to the See also:mob; See also:Aristotle in his Politics and especially in the Constitution of See also:Athens, which is valuable in that it gives the See also:dates of Pericles' enactments as derived from an See also:official document, accepts the same view.

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Plutarch (Pericles) gives many interesting details as to Pericles' See also:personal bearing, See also:home See also:life, and patronage of See also:art, literature and See also:philosophy, derived in See also:part from the old comic poets, Aristophanes, See also:Cratinus, See also:Eupolis, See also:Hermippus, Plato and Teleclides; in part from the contemporary See also:memoirs of Stesimbrotus and See also:Ion of See also:Chios. At the same See also:time he reproduces their scandalous anecdotes in a quite uncritical spirit, and accepts unquestioningly the 4th-century tradition. He quotes Aristotle, Heraclides Ponticus, See also:Aeschines Socraticus, See also:Idomeneus of See also:Lampsacus and See also:Duris of See also:Samos, and is also indebted through some Alexandrine intermediary to See also:Ephorus and See also:Theopompus. Diodorus (xi. and xii.), who copied Ephorus, contains nothing of value.

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