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Exemplary Statesman or Stealthy Tyrant?

Exemplary Statesman or Stealthy Tyrant?. Plutarch’s Life of Pericles. Periclēs turannos?. “A certain persuasion resided on his lips, such was his magic. And he alone of speakers could leave behind a sting in his listeners.” (Eupolis Demes fr. 102 PCG , on Pericles’ rhetoric)

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Exemplary Statesman or Stealthy Tyrant?

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  1. Exemplary Statesman or Stealthy Tyrant? Plutarch’s Life of Pericles

  2. Periclēs turannos? “A certain persuasion resided on his lips, such was his magic. And he alone of speakers could leave behind a sting in his listeners.”(Eupolis Demes fr. 102 PCG, on Pericles’ rhetoric) “Athens was in name a democracy, but in fact was a government by its first man”(Thucydides on Pericles, History p. 57) “He came to hold more power in his hands than many a king and tyrant”(Plutarch’s Pericles p. 182) Plutarch's Life of Pericles

  3. Agenda • Oral Report (cont’d) • Monoson on Thucydides • Recap and update. . . • Pericles, Democracy, Empire, Spin • Spin and Dialogue • Evaluative accent • Revalorization • Advisor or “Tyrant”? • The Pericles’ Debate Plutarch's Life of Pericles

  4. Oral Report (cont’d) Monoson on Thucydides

  5. Recap and update. . . Pericles, Democracy, Empire, Spin

  6. Athenian Democracy ca. 485 “The polis . . . Areopagus… . . . of the Athenians”

  7. Athenian Democracy 461 “The polis . . . . . . of the Athenians”

  8. Spin and Dialogue • Evaluative accent • Revalorization Plutarch's Life of Pericles

  9. argumentfromprobability polupragmosunēversusapragmosunē Spin in Thucydides … • Debate at Sparta • Corinthian • Athenian • Spartan • Archidamus • Stheneleidas • Pericles’ first speech • Funeral Oration • Pericles Last Speech Plutarch's Life of Pericles

  10. Pericles’ and His Several Masks • Exemplary statesman? • Resourceful demagogue? • Stealth tyrant? Plutarch's Life of Pericles

  11. Fit Man to Model. . . QUOTES ANALYTIC CONCEPTS Speech acts generally “Ideological chain” Spin evaluative accent revalorization Dahl’s criteria effective participation enlightened understanding Mass-elite dialectic Homonoia v. isēgoria Frank v. gratifying speech parrhēsia v. kolakeia • “Whenever I throw him at wrestling, he beats me by arguing that he was never down” • “He succeeded in bribing the masses wholesale” (ca. 462) • “The secret of [his] power depended … not merely on his oratory, but [on his proving] himself … indifferent to bribes” • “He was usually able to carry the people with him by rational argument and by persuasion” • “He was no longer so docile toward the people” (444-429) Plutarch's Life of Pericles

  12. Advisor or “Tyrant”? The Pericles’ Debate

  13. Journal & Class Debate RESOLVED: Periclean democracy was democratic in fact as well as in name.

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