{"id":1099,"date":"2011-01-09T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T16:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/pericles\/"},"modified":"2013-09-26T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T14:20:00","slug":"pericles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/conferences\/a-venir\/pericles\/","title":{"rendered":"PERICLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 5th century BC., <strong>PERICLES<\/strong> was a very talented strategist and the most influential speaker in Athenian Democracy. His leadership was decisive for \u201cThe Greek miracle\u201d : the greatest collective creativity in \u00a0history. He worked to improve the institutions of the participative democracy invented by his great-uncle Cleisthenes. He tried as well to avoid the mistakes of demagogy and anarchy. He played a major role for Athens to become one of the most beautiful city at that time, with \u00a0buildings such as the Parthenon. Hurried to neutralize the militaristic cities inspired by the rival Sparta and intoxicated by Athens leadership over a majority of Greek cities, he encouraged decisions that will lead to the \u00a0\u201cPeloponnesian War\u201d. For 27 years, hundreds of Greek cities were engaged into an exhausting war, worsen by an epidemic which carried Pericles off at a time his abilities were particularly required. The major consequences were the end of participative democracy and the final crushing of Greek cities by Alexander the Great.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Alice Labr\u00e8que and Jean Routier, 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 5th century BC., PERICLES was a very talented strategist and the most influential speaker in Athenian Democracy. His leadership was decisive for \u201cThe Greek miracle\u201d : the greatest collective creativity in \u00a0history. He worked to improve the institutions<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/conferences\/a-venir\/pericles\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1206,"menu_order":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1099","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1099\/revisions\/1641"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labrequeroutier.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}