Pericles lifted Athens into a golden age through his support of the arts, architecture, philosophy, and democracy building.

If Fiasco Theater has mixed results in its production of this Shakespearean tragicomedy, it celebrates actors supporting and delighting in one another’s work.

Pericles’ record illuminates democracy’s advantage as his success was unlikely in a non-democratic regime. The democratic advantage is both theoretically grounded, as the funeral oration articulates a ...

Count me among those who consider The Adventures of Pericles a mediocre play at best. If it were made into a blockbuster summer movie today, the critics would not be kind – bland hero, prolonged ...

William Shakespeare has acquired a new collaborator for this production of Pericles: director Lois Anderson has reinvented the script and the results are enchanting. There’s a long-standing ...

This powerful play about tyrants and heroes is now in a not-to-be-missed production from the visiting Royal Shakespeare Company on Navy Pier.

In the early years of Pericles' power he was constantly challenged for the leadership of Athens. One opponent, Thucydides (not the historian of the same name), a relative of the ostracised Cimon ...

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...

The shards of the smashed wine cup were found on a construction site in the north Athenian suburb of Kifissia. Archaeologists discovered the name “Pericles” scratched under one of the handles ...