Periclean

[ per-i-klee-uhn ]

adjective

1. of or relating to Pericles or to the period Periclean Age when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.

Periclean

/ ˌpɛrɪˈkliːən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Pericles or to the period when Athens was the intellectual and artistic leader of the Greek city-states

Word History and Origins

Origin of Periclean¹

First recorded in 1815–25; Pericle(s) + -an

Example Sentences

If Republicans succeed in taking the House in November, the new majority could make the current Congress — with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert and the rest — look like Periclean Athens.

From Washington Post

I kept drinking from glasses which kept appearing as if by magic, Bunny proposing toasts to everything from Hampden College to Benjamin Jowett to Periclean Athens, and the toasts becoming purpler and purpler as time wore on until, by the time the coffee arrived, it was getting dark.

From Literature

Five years later, at a dinner in Yale President Levin's home, Hill regaled the guests with a Periclean assessment of Giuliani's recent presidential campaign, which he'd served while on leave from Grand Strategy.

From Salon

Greece’s centre-right administration has vowed to step up the campaign to win back artworks that adorned the frieze of the Periclean showpiece ahead of the country’s bicentennial independence celebrations next year.

From The Guardian

Seven centuries later a plague struck Periclean Athens, killing a quarter of the city’s population and setting the city-state on a path to military defeat at the hands of Sparta.

From The Guardian