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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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On the economic side, Periclean Athens was nearly as ill founded as aristocratic Rome.
To assuage their cultural anxiety, Romans lost no opportunity to badmouth the inheritors of Periclean Athens.
She was undoubtedly a model of female perfection after the Periclean standard.
The practice of torturing witnesses in court was common in Periclean Athens.
Despite many unlikenesses, the nineteenth century was strangely reminiscent of the Periclean age.
Dealing with the end of the Periclean age, specifically in and around 415 BCE, Keuls charts the 'phallocracy' underlying Athenian society.

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