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Pericles : (c.495-429 BC), Athenian statesman who brought democracy to its height & nearly established Athens as the leading power in Greece; he also encouraged all arts.

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... way to Chicago or Tierra del Fuego. Pericles is long gone. But what has evolved since Pericles? Science? That is not sure. But for sure the human net has become inextricably tied up—indissolubly, we might say. We cannot move an atom without moving everything. A terrible universal disease... or something else? An unthinkable contamination of everything. Pericles would never have thought of it—but we... peacefully and decently in the midst of refined humans, in the Renaissance, say, or perhaps during Pericles' time? In any case, during an age when men had a certain. I was going to say "polish"—but that is the point: the polish is now wearing thin—because underneath, it is all the same, whether in the skin of Pericles or the Khmer Rouge, it is the same inner swarming. Only, now it has become unrelieved. It... it comes to us in flashes that this frightful state of things may in fact be the best possible condition for the supramental contagion. It is not Pericles' brain that is progressing through evolution; evolution is not meant to produce some super-Pericles: it is all of terrestrial Matter that is evolving simultaneously; it is in Matter that the little ((pulsation" is happening—so very new and upsetting ...

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... preliminary sketches of the destiny of Athens prepared by Fate and brought forward by the predecessors of Pericles; it was left to him to fill in the colours, which would announce it for posterity as the Golden Age or the Age of Pericles. Pericles Under the leadership of Pericles, Commander-in-chief of Athens, elected and. re-elected for almost 30 years by the Athenians, the polls (city)... Anaxagoras 8 for a friend and teacher who uplifted his mind to loftier purposes. From him Pericles learnt the art of eloquence and found within himself a calmness, which could not be shaken even in the most trying circumstance. It is said that Pericles, too caught up in the Page 12 Pericles "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is... and his son and successor Xerxes at Salamis in 480 BC. Damon, son of Damonides, was an advisor to Pericles. Though his expertise was musicology, some say that he had a broader influence over Pericles' political policy; e.g. Damon is said to have been responsible for advising Pericles to incorporate the policy of paying for jury service. Zeno of Elea (490-430 BC) was a pre-Socratic ...

Kireet Joshi   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Socrates
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... been an ancient Athenian in a past life. My bond with Sri Aurobindo may have been close at that time too, for Nolini has reported that two of Sri Aurobindo's incarnations in the past were Pericles and Socrates — Pericles who stood at the sovereign centre of the Classical Age of Greece which was one of the finest efflorescences of the human spirit, literary as well as political — Socrates who came at the ...

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... instrument in their hands for the work of purifying the heart and clarifying the mind and the inner being. (4) That was the golden age of Greece and Athens, famed in history as the Age of Pericles. Pericles was the leading man in his city, the chief Archon of the state, and a man of great genius. It was largely thanks to his genius that the whole of Greece could attain its supreme point of greatness ...

... Athenian forces. 469 BC — Birth of Socrates. 461 BC — Pericles rises to prominence as a leading statesman of Athens. 463 BC — Cimon, leader of the oligarchs, is ostracized. Ephialtes, leader of the Democratic Party is assassinated. Pericles replaces him and becomes Commander Page 144 in-chief of Athens.... A terrifying plague begins in Athens that lasts for about four years and kills over one-third of the population of Athens. Trial of Pericles takes place. He is blamed for the war and its resulting misery and is deposed. 429 BC — Pericles is reinstated, but soon dies from the plague. The political structure of Athens is in ruin. The plague seems also to have had a devastating ...

Kireet Joshi   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Socrates
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... rational age in ancient Greece took place at the time of Pericles, in Greece’s Golden Age. The instruments of this transition were the sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicos, Hippias, Critias, and others – who were much more influential than is generally supposed. “Truly speaking, one does not understand anything of the century of Pericles and ‘the Greek miracle’ if one does not have a clear idea... Barrett: Irrational Man , p. 89. × Jacqueline de Romilly: Les grands sophistes dans l’Athenes de Pericles , p. 10. × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 188. ...

... and condemned to death (?), but escaped with the help of Pericles, who was his very good friend, and retired to Lampsacus, where he died. The details of the story are disputed, but there is little doubt that the motives underlying his accusation were not religious or patriotic but political, and formed part of a campaign against Pericles and his advisers. Clearly Plato intends us to compare the... Corinth who was famous for his unscrupulous cleverness. Presumably it was his brains rather than his character that interested Socrates. Page .86 Phidias in the centre, Pericles and Aspasia on the left, Alcibiades on the right, admiring the work of the sculptor Page 87 Page 88 ...

Kireet Joshi   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Socrates
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... Persia, and condemned to death (?), but escaped with the help of Pericles, who was his very good friend, and retired to Lampsacus, where he died. The details of the story are disputed, but there is little doubt that the motives underlying his accusation were not religious or patriotic but political, and formed part of a campaign against Pericles and his advisers. Clearly Plato intends us to compare the ... lifetime the zenith of its political power and cultural achievements, and every aspect of the collective life prospered and developed. 2 Architecture and the arts blossomed during this time, when Pericles, a political leader, promoted the extension and beautification of the Acropolis, and Phidias, the sculptor, created the statues of the Parthenon. 3 Cultural events such as public performances of ...

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... opulence of the queen he demonstrates her supreme command over the elements—"the love sick air"—and the water amorous of the strokes of silver oars which keep pace with the music. In the play Pericles , Prince of Tyre, the royal princess Marina is described thus: As wand-like straight, as silver-voiced; Her eyes as jewel-like and cased as richly; In pace another Juno. 3 ... appears again in Paradise Lost: Now mom her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. 5 2 Antony and Cleopatra , I. v. 11: 61-62. 3 Pericles, Prince of Tyre , V.i. 11:111 -13. 4 As You Like lt, H.i.ll : 12-14. 5 Paradise Lost, Book V, 11:1-2. Page 488 Dawn "sows" or casts light on the soil, also drops ...

... Athens, the jury system was introduced simultaneously with Athenian democracy in 590 BC. A council called Areopagus consisting of elected aristocrats, ran both the government as well as the court. Pericles and his predecessor Aphialtes, had accomplished one of the greatest reforms in the judicial system that of .transference of the judicial powers from this council of aristocrats, to the heliaea, a... slaves as well as alien residents were not permitted. These 6000 jurors were divided into 10 panels of roughly 500 jurors each. Jury duty was voluntary and each juror served for a year at a time. Pericles also began the practice of a fee of three obols for a day of jury duty. Athens employed panels ranging from 500 to as many as 1500 jurors, depending on the nature of the case. Using a large number ...

Kireet Joshi   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Socrates
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... indeed Homer and no later creation reached a higher or even as high a status of creative power: but it was a solitary peak, it was perhaps an announcement, not the realisation of the national glory. Pericles stood as the guardian, the representative, the emblem and nucleus of a nation-wide efflorescence. Not to speak of the great names associated with the age, even the common people – more than what was... movements. They throw up great aspiring souls, strong men of action, indeed, but as part of themselves, in their various aspects, facets, centres of expression, lines of expansion. An Augustus, a Pericles, a Leo X, a Louis XIV, or a Vikramaditya are not more than nuclei, as I have already said, centres of reference round which their respective epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not ...

... indeed Homer and no later creation reached a higher or even as high a status of creative power: but it was a solitary peak, it was perhaps an announcement, not the realisation of the national glory. Pericles stood as the guardian, the representative, the emblem and nucleus of a nation-wide efflorescence. Not to speak of the great names associated with the age, even the common people—more than what was... movements. They throw up great aspiring souls, strong men of action, indeed, but as part of themselves, in their various aspects, facets, centres of expression, lines of expansion. An Augustus, a Pericles, a Leo X , a Louis XIV, or a Vikramaditya are not more than nuclei, as I have already said, centres of reference round which their respective epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are ...

... during the Renaissance, although she has had too her crowded moments thronged by figures of a different kind. But she has had many rulers, statesmen and encouragers of art as great in their own way as Pericles or Lorenzo di Medici; the personalities of her famed poets emerge more dimly through the mist of time, but with indications which point to a lofty spirit or a humanity as great as that of Aeschylus ...

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... constituent strands. There is another thing—lines of Force. In the universe there are many lines of Force on which various personalities or various achievements and formations spring up—e.g. the line Pericles-Caesar-Napoleon or the line Alexander-Jenghiz-Tamerlane-Napoleon—meeting together there—so it may be too in poetry, lines of poetic force prolonging themselves from one poet to another, meeting and ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Letters on Yoga - I
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... or indwelling Divinity. This is the distinction we can gather from the Gita which is the main authority on this subject.” 4 Among the Vibhutis may be counted: Veda Vyasa, Hatshepsut, Moses, Pericles, Socrates, Alexander, Confucius, Lao Tse, Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Shankara, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and undoubtedly many more in all times ...

... Such tolerance was exceptional at the time.’ (John Papp and Elizabeth Kirkland, Shakespeare alive! p. 23) [^101]: There is some evidence that Sri Aurobindo was, besides Leonardo da Vinci, also Pericles, Caesar Augustus and Louis XIV. He may have been King Solomon, for, after all, the basic form of his symbol is that of Solomon. A disciple of whom some incarnations are common knowledge was Nolini ...

... announced about myself by both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was that I had been an ancient Athenian. It is curious that I never inquired who the fellow had been. If, as reported, Sri Aurobindo had been Pericles and a little later Socrates (as declared by Nolini), I guess I must have belonged to the period of the one or the other. The two certainties about Sri Aurobindo's past, as deducible from his corr ...

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... announced about myself by both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother was that I had been an ancient Athenian. It is curious that I never inquired who the fellow had been. If, as reported, Sri Aurobindo had been Pericles and a little later Socrates (as declared by Nolini), I guess I must have belonged to the period of the one or the other. The two certainties about Sri Aurobindo's past, as deducible from his corr ...

... the controlling principle of the universe ** Iconography: Traditional or conventional images or symbols associated with a subject and especially a religious or legendary subject. *** Pericles: (492-429 BC) Athenian statesman, champion of Athenian democracy. Under his leadership Athens went through a very prosperous and enlightened period. Page 19 vigorous element in Greek ...

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... her Vedic epoch or even in her Harappa and Mohenjo-daro Page 238 days, in the sense that modern Egypt is not the Egypt of the Pharaohs, nor the Greece of Venizelos the Greece of Pericles. It is true there were periods of decline and almost total disintegration in India, but she survived and revived. And the revival did not mean a negation of her past and of her origins, a complete ...

... accomplish. There is much too that it has wilfully flung aside in impatience or scorn to its own great loss, to the injury of its life, to the imperfection of its culture. An ancient Greek of the time of Pericles or the philosophers suddenly transported in time to this century would be astonished by the immense gains of the intellect and the expansion of the mind, the modern many-sidedness of the reason and ...

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... grammarians”, would win the day and develop the “natural philosophy” we call science. There was also a third component in the Renaissance movement, the “emotional”. In Thucydides, Demosthenes and Pericles, as in Caesar, Cicero and Tacitus, the Renaissance men rediscovered the pride and glory of belonging, of patriotism, of “the general weal”, of the heartening inspiration of tradition and the past ...

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... the primary & secondary utthapanas have to revive simultaneously & the continuity of the kamananda has to be confirmed. This has to be done today. Agesilaus = Sn [Saurin].    Agathon, Alcibiades, Pericles, Brasidas    Agis, Agesilaus, Sophocles, Pharnabazus.    Lysander, Euripides, Pausanias. Two absolutely perfect, the rest mostly defective. That is already done. Now for the physical siddhi. Ananda ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Record of Yoga
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... Brasidas.. T. [Tiberius] Gracchus. Clarence. Louis XII Lafayette. Pompey. T. [Titus] Manlius. Marcellus. Agis. Philip IV. Pausanias. Lysander. B. [Benedict] Arnold Notes - IX χωμοɩ Pericles, Agathon, Alcibiadas, Brasidas.... Agesilaus, Agis, Sophocles, Pharnabazus .. Lysander, Euripides, Pausanias Notes - X 19ṭḥ jagrat developed—except divya. 21ṣṭ thought proved & free from ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Record of Yoga
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... t strands. There is another thing — Lines of Force. In the universe there are many lines of Force on which various personalities or various achievements and formations spring up — e.g. the line Pericles-Caesar-Napoleon or the line Alexander-Jenghis-Tamerlane-Napoleon — meeting together there — so it may be too in poetry, lines of poetic force prolonging themselves from one poet to another, meeting ...

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... and white Ideal of a young uplifted race. For these are her gifts to those who worship her. Here we have Classical Greece hit off to a nicety. But the typical spirit of the Greece of Pericles and Phidias and Sophocles— "the inspired reason and the enlightened and chastened aesthetic sense", as Sri Aurobindo's Future Poetry 1 has it—is developed not only when a crude vitalism is overpassed: ...

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... These supporting pillars in female form, the Caryatids, form part of the Erechtheum, a small temple on the Acropolis (see photo pp. 136-37). "Our city is education for all Hellas." (Pericles) Page 153 The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit. "Wisdom begins ...

Kireet Joshi   >   Books   >   Other-Works   >   Socrates
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... Testament, the, 214, 244 Olympus, 201, 234 Osiris, 220 PACIFIC, the, 209 Paracelsus, 150 Paris, 373 Parthenon, 136 Patanjali, 315, 319 Pericles, 206-7, 239 Periclean Age, 206 Persia, 240 Pharaohs, the, 239 Phidias, 220 Phoenicia, 219 Pisa, 322 Pisacha, 201, 234 Planck, Max, ...

... depends on the exercise to which they are submitted. The beauty of the body comes from the harmonious development of the muscles and the skeleton. It reached the height of perfection at the epoch of Pericles, in the Greek athletes whom Phidias and his disciples immortalized in their statues. The shape of the face, the mouth, the cheeks, the eyelids, and the lines of the visage are determined by the habitual ...