Definitions for Periclean

Periclean Per·i·cle·an

Spelling: [per-i-klee-uh n]
IPA: /ˌpɛr ɪˈkli ən/

Periclean is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 528 anagrams from letters in Periclean (aceeilnpr).

Definitions for Periclean

adjective

  1. of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.

Origin of Periclean

First recorded in 1815-25; Pericle(s) + -an

Examples for Periclean

We speak of the Periclean, the Augustan, the Elizabethan age.

Let us now compare the nomenclature of the pre-Persian and Periclean temples.

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.

For the Greeks of the Periclean age were widely different from us.

The practice of torturing witnesses in court was common in Periclean Athens.

She was undoubtedly a model of female perfection after the Periclean standard.

You will have ample material; his oratory is not of the Periclean type.

Only imagine the joyful ease of being a poet in the Periclean atmosphere!

On the economic side, Periclean Athens was nearly as ill founded as aristocratic Rome.

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