Museum-quality poster prints that bring classical gravitas to your walls. The engraved portrait style - rich detail rendered in deep purple tones against a soft background - evokes the timeless aesthetic of ancient texts and classical scholarship.
This Pericles poster features the statesman who built the blueprint for democratic civilization, rendered in the distinctive style of the Great Minds of Classical Greece collection. Lightweight enough to ship rolled, these prints layer easily into gallery walls, office spaces, or study corners. Pick fine-art textured paper for that tactile, archival feel, or choose matte for a softer, low-sheen finish. A thoughtful gift for history lovers, political science students, and anyone who believes the figures who shaped civilization deserve wall space.
ABOUT PERICLES (c. 495–429 BC)
Pericles didn't invent Athenian democracy. He perfected it - and in doing so presided over the most extraordinary flowering of human culture in the ancient world.
During his thirty-year dominance of Athenian politics, he commissioned the Parthenon, funded the arts, strengthened the navy, and expanded democratic participation to a degree unprecedented in the ancient world. The Golden Age of Athens - the age of Sophocles, Socrates, Phidias, and Thucydides - unfolded under his leadership and patronage. He understood that a city's greatness was measured not just by its military power but by what it built, thought, and created.
He was also a realist. His funeral oration, recorded by Thucydides, remains one of the most powerful defenses of democratic values ever delivered - a speech that Abraham Lincoln studied before writing the Gettysburg Address. When the Peloponnesian War came, he counseled patience and strategy over glory, knowing that Athens' long-term strength lay in its institutions rather than its battlefield victories.
He died of plague in 429 BC, one of the earliest victims of the epidemic that would ravage Athens for years. The city he left behind had been transformed. The civilization he helped build has never entirely ended.
PRODUCT FEATURES
- Giclée printing for bright, fade-resistant color
- Two paper choices: Fine Art (textured archival) or Matte (low-sheen)
- Available in 3 sizes, vertical orientation, at 273 DPI
- Paper weights range ~180–285 g/m² depending on option
- Shipped rolled for safe transit