Pericles

Family: Athenian · Role: statesman · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 25

Pericles, an Athenian statesman, was the son of Xanthippus. In Book 8, Chapter 41, Ictinus is described as his contemporary and as the architect of the Parthenon at Athens.

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 25

parent: Xanthippus (Xanthippus is Pericles' father.) “Pericles the son of Xanthippus and Xanthippus himself”

Book 1 · Chapter 28

parent: Xanthippus (Xanthippus is Pericles's father.) “a statue of Pericles the son of Xanthippus”

Book 1 · Chapter 29

parent: Xanthippus “Pericles the son of Xanthippus”

Book 8 · Chapter 41

with Ictinus (Ictinus and Pericles were contemporaries.) “Ictinus the builder of the temple at Phigalia was a contemporary of Pericles, and the architect of what is called the Parthenon at Athens.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.