Pericles

Family: Athenians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 1, section 6, part 2/2

In Book 1, section 6, Pericles came immediately behind Aristocrates as his support. In section 7, after the returning generals were deposed at Athens, Timocrates proposed custody for five of them, and the senate imprisoned them; the assembly deferred its decision on the accused generals until another meeting.

During the Aparturia, Theramenes’s party arranged for disguised mourners to appear before the assembly and persuaded Callixenus to accuse the generals. Theramenes said he stood partly to accuse Pericles, “though he is a close and intimate connection of my own,” and partly to urge considerations on the generals’ behalf. Callixenus then proposed a tribal vote, with death and confiscation of property as penalties for those found guilty.

Relationship record

Life events

• The returning generals were deposed by the home authorities.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Diomedon Lysias Aristocrates Thrasylus Erasinides
  • “All the above-named generals, with the exception of Conon, were presently deposed by the home authorities.”
• Timocrates proposed custody for the other five generals, and the senate imprisoned them.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Timocrates Diomedon Lysias Aristocrates Thrasylus
  • “Timocrates then proposed that the other five generals should be put in custody and handed over to the public assembly. Whereupon the senate committed them all to prison.”
• The assembly deferred its decision on the accused generals until another meeting.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Diomedon Lysias Aristocrates Thrasylus
  • “Indeed many private citizens rose wishing to become bail for the accused, but it was resolved to defer decision till another meeting of the assembly.”
• Theramenes’s party arranged for disguised mourners to appear, and Callixenus to accuse the generals.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Theramenes Callixenus Diomedon Lysias Aristocrates Thrasylus
  • “Accordingly the party of Theramenes procured numbers of people clad in black apparel, and close-shaven, who were to go in and present themselves before the public assembly in the middle of the festival, as relatives, presumably, of the men who had perished; and they persuaded Callixenus to accuse the generals in the senate.”
• Callixenus proposed a tribal vote on the generals, with death and confiscation as penalties if found guilty.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Callixenus Diomedon Lysias Aristocrates Thrasylus
  • “Further, in the event of the aforesaid generals being found guilty, let death be the penalty. Let the guilty persons be delivered over to the eleven. Let their property be confiscated to the State, with the exception of one tithe, which falls to the goddess.”

Book 1, section 6, part 2/2

• with Aristocrates (Pericles supported Aristocrates.) “immediately in rear of Aristocrates and Diomedon respectively, as their supports, came Pericles and Erasinides.”

Book 1, section 7, part 1/2

• with Timocrates (The proposal concerned the other five generals, including Pericles.) “Timocrates then proposed that the other five generals should be put in custody and handed over to the public assembly.”
• with Callixenus (Callixenus was persuaded to accuse the generals.) “Then came the festival of the Aparturia, with its family gatherings of fathers and kinsfolk. Accordingly the party of Theramenes procured numbers of people clad in black apparel, and close-shaven, who were to go in and present themselves before the public assembly in the middle of the festival, as relatives, presumably, of the men who had perished; and they persuaded Callixenus to accuse the generals in the senate.”
• with Euryptolemus (Euryptolemus describes Pericles as a close and intimate connection.) “I stand here, men of Athens, partly to accuse Pericles, though he is a close and intimate connection of my own, and Diomedon, who is my friend, and partly to urge certain considerations on their behalf, but chiefly to press upon you what seems to me the best course for the State collectively.”

Book 1, section 7, part 2/2

• with Euryptolemus (Euryptolemus identifies Pericles as his kinsman; the precise kinship is unspecified.) “Yes, and so help me God--if it please you, begin with my own kinsman Pericles for base would it be on my part to make him of more account than the whole of the State.”
• with Thrasybulus (Thrasybulus undertook to accuse the generals; Pericles is identified as one of them.) “Among the taxiarchs left behind, two were Thrasybulus and Theramenes, the men who in the late meeting of this assembly undertook to accuse the generals.”
• with Theramenes (Theramenes undertook to accuse the generals; Pericles is identified as one of them.) “Among the taxiarchs left behind, two were Thrasybulus and Theramenes, the men who in the late meeting of this assembly undertook to accuse the generals.”

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