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Pericles: King Lear
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Pericles’ advisor Helicanus is a model of his kind. He is an honorable, honest, and faithful man who will obey but never flatter his king. He governs Tyre during the king’s absence but resists the temptation to assume the throne when the lords of Tyre pressure him to do so.
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Pericles was of the tribe Acamantis, and the township Cholargus, of the noblest birth both on his father's and mother's side. Xanthippus, his father, who defeated the King of Persia's generals in the battle of Mycale, took to wife Agariste, the grandchild of Clisthenes, who drove out the sons of Pisistratus, and nobly put an end to their tyrannical usurpation, and... made a body of laws, and settled a model of government admirably tempered and suited for the harmony and safety of the people.
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Pericles became the most powerful man in Athens, yet he had never been elected to any public office. Having, in effect, bought their support, he made use of the masses against his political opponents so that he became a king disguised as a champion of the people.
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Some contemporary scholars, for example Sarah Ruden, call Pericles a populist, a demagogue and a hawk,[107] while other scholars admire his charismatic leadership. According to Plutarch, after assuming the leadership of Athens, "he was no longer the same man as before, nor alike submissive to the people and ready to yield and give in to the desires of the multitude as a steersman to the breezes".[108] It is told that when his political opponent, Thucydides, was asked by Sparta's king, Archidamus, whether he or Pericles was the better fighter, Thucydides answered without any hesitation that Pericles was better, because even when he was defeated, he managed to convince the audience that he had won.[9] In matters of character, Pericles was above reproach in the eyes of the ancient historians, since "he kept himself untainted by corruption, although he was not altogether indifferent to money-making".[15]
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