Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators . PERICLES. |£RICLES lived nearly twenty-five centuries ago. The years ofhis life were sixty-six—during thelast thirty-one of which, by popu-lar acclaim, he was the FirstCitizen of age in which he lived iscalled the Age of died less than threehundred years ago, and although he lived in a writingage and every decade since has seen a plethora ofwriting men, yet writing men are now bandying wordsas to whether he lived at all. Between us and Pericles lie a thousand years of night,when styli were stilled, pens forgotten
Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators . PERICLES. |£RICLES lived nearly twenty-five centuries ago. The years ofhis life were sixty-six—during thelast thirty-one of which, by popu-lar acclaim, he was the FirstCitizen of age in which he lived iscalled the Age of died less than threehundred years ago, and although he lived in a writingage and every decade since has seen a plethora ofwriting men, yet writing men are now bandying wordsas to whether he lived at all. Between us and Pericles lie a thousand years of night,when styli were stilled, pens forgotten, chisels thrownaside, brushes were useless, and oratory was silent,dumb. Yet we know the man Pericles quite as well asthe popular mind knows George Washington wholived but yesterday, and with whom myth and fablehave already played their part. Thucydides, a contemporary of Pericles, w^ho outlivedhim nearly half a century, wrote his life. FortunatelyThucydides was big enough himself to take the meas-ure of a great man. At least seven other contempora-ri
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