Periklész idézet

Periklész görög államférfi, szónok, uralkodó és hadvezér. Kiemelkedő és befolyásos államfő volt az ókori Athén aranykorában, különösen a görög–perzsa és a peloponnészoszi háború között. Anyja révén az Alkmaiónidák nagy múltú, befolyásos nemesi családjának leszármazottja.

Periklész olyan nagy hatással volt az athéni társadalomra, hogy a kortárs történetíró, Thuküdidész „Athén első polgárának” nevezte. A Déloszi Szövetséget Athén birodalmává alakította, és ő vezette honfitársait a peloponnészoszi háború első két évében. Athéni vezető szerepének idejét gyakran nevezik „Periklész korának”, amelybe időnként beleveszik a perzsa háborúkat vagy a halála utáni időszakot egészen az i. e. 4. század elejéig.

Az athéni demokrácia egyik úttörője, amit olyannyira támogatott, hogy kritikusai populistának nevezték.

Támogatta az irodalmat és a művészeteket, aminek köszönhetően Athén az ókori Görögország kulturális és oktatási központjává vált. A perzsák által lerombolt várost újjáépíttette, köztük az Akropolisz máig fennmaradt épületeit, így a Parthenónt is. Ez a merész vállalkozása amellett, hogy megszépítette Athént és növelte fényét, munkát is adott az embereknek. Wikipedia  

✵ 494 i.e. – 429 i.e.
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Periklész idézetek

Periklész: Idézetek angolul

“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”

As quoted in Until Tomorrow Comes (1979) by Orville E. Kelly, p. 160

“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”

As quoted in Eternal Greece (1961) by Rex Warner, p. 34
Kontextus: Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

“They gave her their lives, to her and to all of us, and for their own selves they won praises that never grow old, the most splendid of sepulchers — not the sepulchre in which their bodies are laid, but where their glory remains eternal in men's minds, always there on the right occasion to stir others to speech or to action. For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial: it is not only the inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out; no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form but in people's hearts, their memory abides and grows. It is for you to try to be like them. Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”

Book 2, chapter 44: Funeral oration, as translated at "In Defense of Democracy" http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/pericles_in-defense-of-democracy.html
Verse 4 is sometimes freely translated as The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Kontextus: I could tell you a long story (and you know it as well as I do) about what is to be gained by beating the enemy back. What I would prefer is that you should fix your eyes every day on the greatness of Athens as she realty is, and should fall in love with her. When you realize her greatness, then reflect that what made her great was men with a spirit of adventure, men who knew their duty, men who were ashamed to fall below a certain standard. If they ever failed in an enterprise, they made up their minds that at any rate the city should not find their courage lacking to her, and they gave to her the best contribution that they could. They gave her their lives, to her and to all of us, and for their own selves they won praises that never grow old, the most splendid of sepulchers — not the sepulchre in which their bodies are laid, but where their glory remains eternal in men's minds, always there on the right occasion to stir others to speech or to action. For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial: it is not only the inscriptions on their graves in their own country that mark them out; no, in foreign lands also, not in any visible form but in people's hearts, their memory abides and grows. It is for you to try to be like them. Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

“Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.”

As quoted in The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper (1966). Book II, chapter 40.

“We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.”

Pericles commenting the participation of Athenian citizens in politics, as quoted in Models of Democracy (2006) by David Held, Stanford University Press, p. 14. Book II, chapter 40.

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

As quoted in Flicker to Flame : Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness (2006) by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, p. 118
This quotation is likely a modern paraphrasing of a longer passage from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, II.43.3.