How To Use Pericles In A Sentence
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It was replanned in marble after the battle of Marathon in 490 bc, but it was not constructed in its final form until 447-432 BC when it became the centre-piece of Pericles' scheme for the Acropolis.
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A textually corrupt quarto of Pericles appeared in 1609 and was reprinted five times; the play was omitted from the first folio of 1623, but was included in the second issue of the third Folio of 1664.
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New Haven was a feast of fat things—now the young wife in "La Ronde," now the bawd in "Pericles," now a play by Euripides, now by Strindberg, now the leading lady, now the ingénue.
The Independent-Film Character
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SOCRATES: And if Adrastus the mellifluous or Pericles heard of these wonderful arts, brachylogies and eikonologies and all the hard names which we have been endeavouring to draw into the light of day, what would they say?
Phaedrus
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We saw Pericles, which is filled with both mirth and tragedy.
Qdiosa Diary Entry
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Knowing that either revealing this secret or pretending not to have solved the riddle will bring about his death, Pericles gives a riddling answer, whereby he warns the King without exposing him.
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If it would take us to the house of Pericles every time, I'd like them at least once a week!" cried Dion, looking longingly at the coin Pericles had given him.
The Spartan Twins
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Shortly after I suppose Pericles and certain scenes in Jeronymo to have been produced; and in the same epoch, I place the Winter's Tale and Cymbeline, differing from the Pericles by the entire 'rifacimento' of it, when Shakspeare's celebrity as poet, and his interest, no less than his influence as manager, enabled him to bring forward the laid-by labours of his youth.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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Shakespeare, for example, uses Gower to bridge the temporal gaps between adjacent episodes in Pericles in ways which parallel the use of Time as chorus in The Winter's Tale.
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How was Pericles surprised when she said her name was Marina, for he knew it was no usual name, but had been invented by himself for his own child to signify seaborn, O, I am mocked, said he, and you are sent hither by some incensed god to make the world laugh at me.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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Doug Muder — aka Pericles at Daily Kos — offers a perceptive analysis of two competing worldviews in his latest article for uuworld.org: liberal religion and life: He wants to know why fundamentalists seem so afraid of liberal assumptions and liberal family values.
Philocrites: Who's afraid of freedom and tolerance?
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Nucingen made one with the Prince de Ligne, with Mazarin or with Diderot, is a human formula that is almost inconceivable, but which has nevertheless been known as Pericles, Aristotle, Voltaire, and Napoleon.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Thomas Steinbeck: John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism
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Jane and I see that she goes to everything, and we've scared her up a kind of brevet beau -- an old rooster named Brownwell -- Adrian Pericles Brownwell, who has blown in here and bought the _Banner_ from Ezra Lane.
A Certain Rich Man
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From the 450s onward, Pericles rebuilt the city of Athens, a city ravaged by years of wars with the Persians.
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Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory
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In the have and have-not society of golden-age Athens, wallowing in luxury and public ostentation became a pivot for societal change, as the statesman Pericles suggested such showiness was ultimately not worthy of the Greeks, and altogether more a Persian way of carrying on.
TV highlights 27/06/2011
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We can speculate, however, that the story of Pericles 'separation from and eventual reunion with wife and daughter was just the kind of tragicomic dream to give Shakespeare the chance to express, in a play, the sorts of feelings that a man might have in rejoining his wife and daughter after so long a separation.
Shakespeare
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Shipwrecks are a constant in this tale, being the main means of precipitating Pericles into his various adventures, like an especially unlucky Odysseus.
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Doug Muder aka Pericles is reading the book I keep meaning to start: James Ault's Spirit and Flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church —and he has extracted two important lessons from it.
Philocrites: February 2005 Archives
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The chief result of the War was that the Athenian Empire was divided, the subject states of the Delian league were liberated, direct democracy failed and Pericles was ostracized.
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We don’t have direct democracy, as in Pericles’ Athens (if you were male and free).
Scripting News for 1/24/2007 « Scripting News Annex
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Then the sister of Pericles died, and then his last legitimate son.
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Pericles' celebrated hetaera, Aspasia, came from Miletos.
Miletos Tristesse
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We may, I believe, safely compare the history of The Nights with the so-called Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, a collection of immortal ballads and old Epic formulæ and verses traditionally handed down from rhapsode to rhapsode, incorporated in a slowly-increasing body of poetry and finally welded together about the age of Pericles.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Because part of the point of politics is to honor people like Pericles.
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Pericles is without doubt a very silly play, probably Shakespeare's silliest (and the silly bits are shared evenly between the bits he wrote and the bits by brothel-keeper and part-time playwright George Wilkins).
Susan Boyle
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We then get homiletic lectures on the virtues of Shakespeare, English and the royal family before selected detainees launch spontaneously into a retelling of Pericles.
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Individual scenes are well staged: when wrecked on the shores of Pentapolis, Pericles arrives in a launderette swimming in water and bedecked with old clothes.
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The Shakspere Festival of Philadelphia will theatre Romeo as good as Juliet as good as Pericles in repertory from Mar compartment May of this year.
Archive 2009-11-01
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In Pericles' day, the democratic Athenian Assembly actually voted to pay jury-duty fees to all attendees at those dramatic festivals.
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As an instance we need only recall Aspasia and her well-attested relation to Pericles and
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 01
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Shakespeare's "Pericles" exists only in a lousy quarto, which is so badly transcribed scholars assume it was done by someone jotting down the script from memory after having seen the show (the early modern equivalent of the grainy pirated videos you can buy on the subway).
Longing for Great Lost Works
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The comic writers of the town, when they had got hold of this story, made much of it, and bespattered him with all the ribaldry they could invent, charging him falsely with the wife of Menippus, one who was his friend and served as lieutenant under him in the wars; and with the birds kept by Pyrilampes, an acquaintance of Pericles, who, they pretended, used to give presents of peacocks to Pericles female friends.
Pericles
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Pericles then crossed back to Euboea, crushed the revolt, and established a cleruchy in Histaiaea.
C. 450
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The audience went wild at the end of Adrian Noble's production of Pericles - maybe as a response to all the recent anti-RSC jeremiads.
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Pericles was the force behind many of the buildings on the acropolis, including the Parthenon itself.
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Pericles is silly, and Timon of Athens simply not very good.
Shakespeare: Fourth Quarter
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How was Pericles surprised when she said her name was Marina, for he knew it was no usual name, but had been invented by himself for his own child to signify seaborn: 'O, I am mocked,' said he, 'and you are sent hither by some incensed god to make the world laugh at me.'
Tales from Shakespeare
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Englishmen and Americans raised on the classics sympathized with those they took to be descendants of Pericles.
The Disloyal Opposition
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Arise, I pray you rise," Shakespeare himself says in "Pericles," "we do not look for reverence but for love.
The Stratford Experience
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In Pericles' day, the democratic Athenian Assembly actually voted to pay jury-duty fees to all attendees at those dramatic festivals.
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Shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War he was charged by the political opponents of Pericles with impiety, that is, with denying the gods recognized by the State.
