Pericles News

 
Finding Pericles in Western Cemetery
Portland Daily Sun
In 430 BC, after the first year of the Peloponnesian War — arguably history's most devastating civil conflict — the Athenians gathered to bury their dead and hear a eulogy by the general and statesman Pericles. In what has been described as the ...


 
Steve 'Speed' Chengelis
SalemNews.net
28, 1920 the son of the late Pericles and Ourania (Zoes) Chengelis; he was an Army-Air Corps veteran and the former vice president of Industrial Mining company. He was of the Greek Orthodox Faith; a former member of the Salem Golf Club and the Eagles.


 
Theater group celebrates 10 years of summer Shakespeare
Tuscaloosa News
For the past nine years, The RMs has done just that, for no money or grades, just the fun and love of the show, and for audiences ranging from 15 sweat-soaked die-hards on a desperately hot afternoon of “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” when we experimented ...

and more »
 
Cyprus Mail
Profile-Cyprus' most famous chef
Cyprus Mail
Pericles Roussounides has been Profiled before in the Sunday Mail. That was in March 2000 when he mentioned, among other things, that he was on his third marriage. “I'ma difficult person to put up with,” he admitted. “I give so much of myself to my ...


 
The Guardian
Pericles – review
The Guardian
According to Ben Johnson, Shakespeare had "small Latine and lesse Greek" – but how would a viewer with no Greek at all cope with Pericles, hardly the Bard's most familiar play, translated into Greek as part of the World Shakespeare festival's Globe to ...

and more »
 
New Hyde Park Remembers at 2012 Memorial Day Parade
Patch.com
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others,” Mayor Petruccio said, quoting the Greek Pericles before reflecting that “we are the living monuments that he is speaking of; our lives and ...


 
The Champion of Greek Outrage
New York Times
After the death of Pericles during the Peloponnesian War, Athenians allowed his seductive nephew, Alcibiades, then 35, to talk them into wasting most of their remaining military resources on a disastrous expedition in Sicily.

and more »