Fornara, Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles (1991). He is the author of What’s Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (2004), Empire of the Owl: Athenian Imperial Finance (2000), and, with Charles W. Samons II is Professor and Chairman of Classical Studies at Boston University, where he received the Metcalf Award for excellence in teaching in 1998.
Previous volumes on subjects directly relevant to mid-fifth-century Athens (including the Cambridge Companions to Early Greek Philosophy and Greek Tragedy) have permitted an approach here that focuses on the historical factors that undergirded, characterized, and threatened Periclean Athens. This Companion volume reveals the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of midfifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history.
The Athenian statesman Pericles fostered where he did not initiate these events and “Periclean Athens” has represented for many the height of classical Athenian history. S Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the production of classical Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece.
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