Pericles of Athens and the dangers of democracy [sound recording] / [lecture by] Loren J. Samons II ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Pericles of Athens and the dangers of democracy [sound recording] / [lecture by] Loren J. Samons II ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Lecturer Loren J. Samons II, professor and chairman of classical studies at Boston University, questions how much praise Pericles himself and Athenian democracy deserve for Athens' achievements in the second half of the 5th century BC, and how much blame for the Peloponnesian War, which devastated Greece and mortally wounded the independent Hellenic city-state.

1 sound disc (ca. 60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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The Getty Villa, located just off the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, California, operates as a museum and educational center dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The Getty Villa was designed to house J. Paul Getty's art collection when it outgrew his Ranch House, which had served as a private museum since 1954. After considering various options for expanding the Ranch House, Getty decided in the fall of 1968 to build a ne...

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Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.

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