How to Use "Pericles" with Example Sentences

1. Because part of the point of politics is to honor people like pericles .

2. Who are your favorite characters in history ? A mixture of socrates , pericles , mahomet , pliny the younger and augustin thierry .

3. The salient facts in this belief summary will serve to show how discordant pericles was with much of the life of his city .

4. The parthenon and other main buildings on the acropolis were built by pericles in the fifth century bc as a monument to the cultural and political achievements of the inhabitants of athens .

5. Some of politicians and ordinary citizens , such as pericles , protagoras and demosthenes , argued that it was democracy that caused athens to become powerful and beautiful and therefore it was an ideal political system .