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Periclean, a.|pɛrɪˈkliːən|
[f. proper name Pericle-s + -an.]
Of or pertaining to Pericles (b.c. c 495–429) and his age in Athenian history, the period of the intellectual and material pre-eminence of Athens. Also transf.
a1822Shelley Ess. & Lett. (Camelot ed.) 46 The Greeks of the Periclean age. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece i. 2 If one of us were transported to Periclean Athens. 1901Daily Chron. 4 Oct. 4/6 She..has striven towards the Periclean ideal of the woman least spoken of for good or evil among men. 1901Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 4/2 Raeburn..lived during what Sir Walter Armstrong quite justly calls the Periclean age of Edinburgh. |