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Athenian leader from 461 to 429 BCE, treated by Jiang as both democratic icon and power-seeking politician.
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Pericles
Athenian leader from 461 to 429 BCE, treated by Jiang as both democratic icon and power-seeking politician.
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He interprets Pericles’ funeral oration as a speech about empire rather than democracy.
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Pericles’ rhetoric converts dead sons and orphaned children into resources for imperial reproduction.
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Pericles’ plague strategy results from trying to preserve balance rather than decisively invading Sparta.
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Jiang says Pericles's funeral oration praised Athens as open, tolerant, democratic, and glorious, then justified young men dying for empire and democracy.
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Jiang argues that Euripides reimagines Pericles's funeral oration as the mother holding her son's head and celebrating her own bravery.
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Jiang presents Pericles as a politician concerned with amassing, increasing, and keeping power, despite acknowledging that historians treat him as a great democratic leader.
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Pericles' expansion of democracy is interpreted as a lower-nobility strategy: align with the people to defeat upper-nobility prestige and money, effectively making himself king of Athens.
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Jiang calls Pericles' transfer and spending of Delian League money official corruption because it turned allied funds into Athenian jobs, monuments, and patronage.
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"...all right so the leader of Athens at this time is Pericles and Pericles is famous for oration which is considered like the most..."
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"we're going to read from the funeral oration and the thing to remember about funeral oration is that Athens is not at war lots..."
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"...other and that's why we'll win this war okay now what Pericles is saying to these parents is you know what your sons were..."
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"is what I have to offer to the parents of the dead who may be here numberless are the chances to which as they..."
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"...so um this is the plague of Athens so again what Pericles should be doing is embarking on a massive war of expansion against..."
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"...burial of all its war dead. During this huge funeral, about Pericles later on, but Pericles, he's basically the first citizen of Athens, which..."
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"And the funeral oration is considered by many to be the greatest speech ever made, okay? It is beautiful. It is extremely eloquent. It's..."
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"...saying to the world, look how brave I am. OK? What Pericles is really saying is, we're an empire, an empire is so good..."
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"...this world. And in 461 BCE, a new political leader called Pericles comes into power. And as you should know from your research, Pericles..."
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"...giving people the right to vote. And so, by doing this, Pericles basically made himself king of Athens. Does it make sense? In fact,..."
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"...took the money from Delos and brought it to Athens. Basically, Pericles said to the Delian League, you know what? This money in Delos,..."
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"...Now, there are people in the upper nobility who thought what Pericles was doing was terrible for Athens. And, basically, in meetings, they wanted..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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