{"product_id":"pericles-fine-art-poster","title":"Pericles - Fine Art Poster","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuseum-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Pericles poster features the statesman who built the blueprint for democratic civilization, rendered in the distinctive style of the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/collections\/great-minds-of-classical-greece\" title=\"Great Minds of Classical Greece\"\u003eGreat Minds of Classical Greece\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT PERICLES (c. 495–429 BC)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePericles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT FEATURES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGiclée printing for bright, fade-resistant color\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo paper choices: Fine Art (textured archival) or Matte (low-sheen)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable in 3 sizes, vertical orientation, at 273 DPI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaper weights range ~180–285 g\/m² depending on option\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShipped rolled for safe transit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Printify","offers":[{"title":"12″ x 18″ (Vertical) \/ Fine Art","offer_id":47957087256743,"sku":"21674824565624188218","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12″ x 18″ (Vertical) \/ Matte","offer_id":47957087289511,"sku":"74970206772047359011","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16″ x 24″ (Vertical) \/ Fine Art","offer_id":47957087322279,"sku":"43969219132633765748","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16″ x 24″ (Vertical) \/ Matte","offer_id":47957087355047,"sku":"27765283829797932102","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20″ x 30″ (Vertical) \/ Fine Art","offer_id":47957087387815,"sku":"17696127790904729163","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20″ x 30″ (Vertical) \/ Matte","offer_id":47957087420583,"sku":"20513268261608535691","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2249\/5399\/files\/Pericles-fine-art-poster.jpg?v=1774058598","url":"https:\/\/legendsketch.com\/products\/pericles-fine-art-poster","provider":"LegendSketch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}