PBS offers a site with excellent resources on the Greeks, including a detailed biography of Pericles.

Plutarch's famous account on the life of Pericles translated by the English poet John Dryden. Provides rich details on such events as the Peloponnesian war and more.

This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, gives an extensive discussion on the important acts and achievements of Pericles.

This is the full text of the five-act play Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare. Pericles, the Prince of Tyre asks the king for the hand his daughter in marriage. The king gives him a riddle to solve before he will agree. The...

Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy Pericles, Prince of Tyre. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Helpful resources are found at the end of each scene. Related...

Study about the leader of Athens during its golden age of Ancient Greece named Pericles on this site.

Read about the Persian invasion of Greece, the Age of Pericles, the Peloponnesian War, and the culture of Classical Greece.

The enormous influence which Pericles exercised for so long a period over an ingenious but fickle people like the Athenians is an unquestionalbe proof of his intellectual superiority. This hold on the public affection is to be attributed...

The Age of Pericles. The interval of about fifty years between the close of the Persian and the beginning of the Peloponnesian war has been called the Age of Pericles, -a somewhat misleading term, as Pericles was at the head of Athenian...

Cartoon drawing of ancient Athenian statesman Pericles.

So long as Pericles stood at the head of Athens in time of peace, he governed it with moderation and maintained it in safety, and under him it rose to its highest power. And when the war broke out he proved that he had well calculated...

Pericles - Morey, 1903

An image of "Pericles", created by Pietro Perugino from 1497-1500 (Pen and ink on white paper, 260 x 164 mm).

An influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides the complete text of Shakespeare's works. Content also includes a search engine (for looking up words and/or phrases), a chronological and alphabetical listing of his plays, a collection...

Here find links to the full texts of William Shakespeare's plays as well as study guides. (Note: Some of the links may no longer work.)

An explanation of the term "acropolis" as well as a description of how the acropolis was used in classical Greece. Also contains extensive information about the Parthenon and Erechtheum, which were built on the Acropolis.

Mary Lamb, with the editorial help of her brother, Charles, rewrote twenty of Shakespeare's plays into stories for children. This is a copy of the tex which introduced Shakespeare to many people of all ages throughout the nineteenth and...

Compare and contrast the Athenian democracy to our current democracy. Study the background of democracy in Athens and the achievements gained under this form of government. Compare the scale, level of participation, and who could become...

PowerPoint style site traces the beginnings of the Peloponnesian War, the Delian League, and the Archidamian War. Includes references and further reading.

Shakespeare site that includes the texts of all of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's other work is listed, but texts are not available. RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity

A book review of Madeleine Henry's biography of Aspasia. The reviewer presents an overview of Aspasia's life and examines some of the controversy surrounding the famous "courtesan" of fifth century Athens.

Lesson designed to help students research daily life in Ancient Greece. Working in groups, students produce sections of an Athenian newspaper.

Provides the historic background to Thucydides' description of the death caused by the plague and the efforts made to cure the sick.