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What does Periclean mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to Pericles, an Ancient Greek politician, or to the golden age of art and literature in Athens.
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Despite many unlikenesses, the nineteenth century was strangely reminiscent of the Periclean age.
What pen and print can do to perfect the requisite conditions for a Periclean age of pottery must by this time have been done.
But, if the western room of the Periclean temple was the opisthodomos, where was the proper?
Dealing with the end of the Periclean age, specifically in and around 415 BCE, Keuls charts the 'phallocracy' underlying Athenian society.
On the economic side, Periclean Athens was nearly as ill founded as aristocratic Rome.
Let us now compare the nomenclature of the pre-Persian and Periclean temples.

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