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1837, The Edinburgh Review: or Critical Journal, Volume 65[1]:Sophocles indeed, in the calmness of his disposition, and the symmetry and stateliness of his genius, might almost be entitles the Pericles of poetry.
1859, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 48[2]:He was the Pericles of Geneva; or let us say that he was the Lycurgus of the Puritans.
- 1874 Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, "Littell's living age"
- When a Pericles was found to preach such doctrine and act upon it, a Cleon was sure to follow ...
- 1992 Michael Palmer, "Love of glory and the common good"
- Will it suffice for men of the stature of a Pericles or a Themistocles at the critical moment?
- 2005 John Uhr, "Terms of trust: arguments over ethics in Australian government"
- If Pericles models the best of political prudence, what might be a second-best solution when there is no Pericles at hand?
- 2007 Alden Hatch, "Franklin D. Roosevelt"
- Thus the new statesman might influence the thought of a mighty modern nation like a Pericles talking to his fellow-citizens in the agora at Athens.
2009, Ernest Henry Short, A History of Sculpture[3]:Lorenzo was the Pericles of the Italian Renaissance.
