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What does Pericles mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Pericles? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A Greek politician that lived during the ancient and the classical times.
  2. A male given name of mostly historical use.
Name
  1. A male given name of Old English origin.
    1. (meaning, history) From Shakespeare's play Pericles.
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From the 450s onward, Pericles rebuilt the city of Athens, a city ravaged by years of wars with the Persians.
He puts to sea again and lands at Mytilene, where through Lysimachus and to his intense joy Pericles discovers his daughter.
I have often heard Pericles speak of his childish obstinacy and perseverance.
You will learn far more about leadership from reading Thucydides's hymn to Pericles than you will from a thousand leadership experts.
It provided a material and political base of cultural achievement that rivaled the Greeks under Pericles.
The complete consumption of the Pericles programme in the last three years of its programme shows the importance of maintaining this facility.

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