Natalia Kapatsoulia, Filippos Mandilaras
Pericles and the Golden Century [Ο Περικλής και ο Χρυσός Αιώνας (O Periklī́s kai o Chrysós Aiṓnas)]
The purpose of this
book is to showcase Pericles’ life, from childhood to death, and the politics
and warfare during Athens’ “Golden Age”, as noted in the subtitle. The front
cover shows a helmeted and bearded Pericles before his major construction
project, the Parthenon. Builders are shown carrying a Doric capital for the
façade’s eighth column, which is missing from the incomplete temple. Yet, we
are not only in ancient Athens. At the bottom of the co(...)