Pericles by Stephen V. Tracy

Author:Stephen V. Tracy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

1. On the teachings of Protagoras, see W. K.C. Guthrie, The Sophists (London, 1971)esp. 181-92.

2. For the fragments, see H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsofyvtikfr (Zurich and Berlin, 1951-1952).

3. See Diels and Kranz, vol. 2, p. 268, frag. 80 B 9.

Protagoras writes in a prose style that is rather poetic. He emphasizes the enormity of the loss in the first sentence. They were fine young men and his sons. For any parent, the death of a child is the most difficult loss to bear, for children are, in the natural course, expected to outlive their parents and carry on the family line. Not only has Pericles suffered such a loss, but doubly so— he has lost both of his sons—and in the space of just eight days. Protagoras leaves unsaid what everyone knew, namely, that these young men were his only legitimate heirs. Whatever Pericles' private grief—and it must have been overwhelming—he gave no sign of it to others. He kept absolute control of his emotions. It is little wonder, then, that his contemporaries, especially the comic poets, found him aloof and remote.

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