Pericles
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Oct 28, 2026
David DebowHOST
And if you look to other sources of Western society, Greek and Roman culture valorized a glorious death.
David DebowHOST
To die for the polis, says Pericles, is the duty and honor of every citizen.
David DebowHOST
So religions, Hellenistic society, Western society.
David DebowHOST
How about philosophers? Well, you can't lump all of philosophy together, but there's an interesting through-line that binds ancient and modern philosophers.
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It was a structural feature of the universe, built into the fabric of things the way gravity is built in, invisible until you need to account for it, and then suddenly the only thing that matters.
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Pericles understood this, or came to understand it.
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And what he did with that understanding, the specific way he chose to inhabit the role of necessary mortal, the kills he made, the methods he used, tells us more about who Heracles was than any of his famous labors do, because the labors were imposed upon him.
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Phlegra was a choice.
Joshua HammondGUEST
And this goes back to even in book one, uh, there are tons of speeches, but especially the speeches by, um, the Corinthian ambassador by Archidamus, the King of Sparta, or one of the Kings of Sparta.
Joshua HammondGUEST
Uh, and then by Pericles, the, sort of leading citizen in athens talking about the difference i'm going to use very generic terms that hide a lot of the nuance in there but kind of the strengths and weaknesses of athens and sparta their characters their strategic cultures and so much of this is based on that strategic culture being a maritime power or a continental power an elephant or a whale
Ryan VestHOST
So I'd like to pivot a little bit and talk about one of my favorite parts of your article.
Ryan VestHOST
Two of the most famous passages in Thucydides are the Million Dialogue and the Athenian Thesis.
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Robert StoneGUEST
There's some poor decision making at some points, but there's also distinctive strengths in reassessment and in the sort of civic commitment to the war effort.
Robert StoneGUEST
And I think, conversely, I think one of the reasons people find a criticism of democracy in Thucydides is that a lot of folks, especially folks who read ancient history for fun or looking for lessons that they can apply to modern life, they're thinking about leadership.
Robert StoneGUEST
And Pericles is this sort of great leader of Athens.
Robert StoneGUEST
And he dies in the plague and... then they go to Sicily a few years later and they lose.
DamonVOICE_ACTOR
You.
DamonVOICE_ACTOR
Four times since the age of Pericles, you denied me.
DamonVOICE_ACTOR
Each time you killed three and then yourself.
DamonVOICE_ACTOR
You will kill three again.
Boad SwansonGUEST
Around 400, 450 or so BC, after Persia and Greece had gone through years of fighting, and then the Athenians and the Spartans kind of turned on each other.
Boad SwansonGUEST
And there's a great leader named Pericles, who was an Athenian.
Boad SwansonGUEST
And at one point, there's a lot we could say about Pericles as a leader, but one of the things that he said that really has struck with me, I'll have to paraphrase it, but he said something along the lines of, your lives won't be measured by monuments, by statues, but what's written into the hearts of those that love us or that we love.
Boad SwansonGUEST
So our aspiration shouldn't be to live a kind of life where they make a statue to us per se.
Boad SwansonGUEST
It should be the way that we live or we should live in a way that we're touching people and for good in a way that just sticks with them and their hearts.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
With Camillus, who saved Rome from the Gauls, he matched Themistocles, who saved Athens from the Persians.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Then followed, as nearly as the order can be determined, for the order of the lives in our collection is not the original one, the Simone and Lucullus, the Lycurgus and Numa, the Demosthenes and Cicero, the Pelopidas and Marcellus, the Lysander and Sulla, the Philopemen and Flamininus, the Pericles and Fabius Maximus, the Aristides and Cato Major, and thirteen other pairs.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
Eighteen of the twenty-two pairs which have come down to us close with a formal comparison of the two careers and characters.
Graham RedmanNARRATOR
This is often fanciful and forced, abounds in contrasts rather than resemblances, and is seldom of any special historical value, although it often has great literary charm.
Leila HormoziHOST
Those people will also expose themselves to more opportunities than anybody else.
Leila HormoziHOST
There is a very famous saying by Pericles, Poverty is not a disgrace, but not striving to overcome it is.
Leila HormoziHOST
Don't be afraid to put in the fucking work, to do the odd jobs.
Leila HormoziHOST
If you're not rich, there is nothing beneath you when it comes to making money and it comes to doing what you've got to do or to create a stepping stone to the next thing.
John BatchelorHOST
The twist is this.
John BatchelorHOST
Athens had a leader called Pericles and a big family.
John BatchelorHOST
Yes.
John BatchelorHOST
And a very big family.
Michael VlahosGUEST
So it's a challenge.
Michael VlahosGUEST
I think that tug of war thing and the fact that it's a ritualized event is very important.
John BatchelorHOST
But Pericles, modern man that he was, said, no, we don't have to go out there.
John BatchelorHOST
Our walls are strong.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
It was at this moment then that this is known as the Golden Age of Athens, the 5th century.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
Pericles was their powerful political leader.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
He encouraged democracy, the arts, a lot of public construction.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
They led, Athens led this movement.
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