So...Are You Still Insane?

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I'm helping my son with a costume  that he must wear as he discusses "Pericles" in his World History Class. Each of the students was to have picked a great world leader and he sort of got stuck with this guy. He wondered though not aloud at the time, why Adolf Hitler was not among the choices. He'd studied him sort of at length for a prior project so I think he wants to use what he's learned--kind of a shortcut.  He is the kind of person who doesn't automatically shut down when the word "Hitler" is mentioned. There's certainly lots to learn from that whole time in World history.  Anyway. Pericles. Have to Google him. It's a Greek name and that's about as far as I know. brb.

Here's what Wikipedia say about Pericles.

Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (ca. 495–429 BC, Greek: Περικλῆς, meaning "surrounded by glory") was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age–specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.

Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens." Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles," though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century.

Pericles promoted the arts and literature; this was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that built most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to the people.^[1] Furthermore, Pericles fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.

Sounds sort of like a Renaissance man only during the Greek Golden Age. Cool. I like the arts and literature angle to Pericles and I know my son --a heavy read-for-pleasure person, can dig the literary aspects of Pericles.

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Well, Hitler is not a great world leader. That's why he is not in there, hope you told him the difference. ;-)

(Great comic!)