"Originally published in France as Pericles: La democratie athenienne a l'epreuve du grand homme, Armand Colin, 2010." "[F]ascinating?Azoulay is one of France's most coruscating classicists?With a pellucid foreword by the peerless British ancient historian Paul Cartledge, maps, illuminating figures?it is indispensable reading for historians. The elegant, pungent prose of the translation itself is exquisite?. An intellectual feast awaits those interested in the problems of extracting truth about any particular historical figure from a maze of discordant voices."---Edith Hall, , Literary Review