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Acclaimed as "the first citizen of Athens", Pericles was one of the greatest statesmen ancient Greece ever produced. During the Golden Age of Athens, in the much admired 5th century B.C., Pericles epitomized the influential politician. But he was also a brilliant orator and military leader brought up in the competitive environment of Greek democracy.

The career of Pericles, the leading Athenian politician and general from c. 450 to 429 B.C., is a prism through which to view the "Golden Age" of Greece, a brief but remarkable era when Athens experienced a cultural flowering of extraordinary power and importance for Western culture. These 24 stimulating lectures present a well-rounded portrait of almost every aspect of Athenian life during the Golden Age.

This complete edition spans 2,400 years (431 BCE–1944) in 40 hours, 155 speeches, and 52 speakers, including foundational addresses by Gandhi and Mao—voices that shaped modern Asia. Begin in 431 BCE with Demosthenes, whose structural genius remains the DNA of modern expression. Traverse Athens’ zenith via Pericles’ Funeral Oration, Alexander’s volatile proclamations, and Rome’s crisis in Cicero’s showdown with Cataline—featuring Caesar’s sole surviving senate address and Mark Antony’s incendiary eulogy.

I più sono ancora convinti che Atene democratica e Pericle siano sinonimi. Eppure il più grande storico di Atene, oltre che contemporaneo e ammiratore di Pericle, scrisse che il suo regime era stato in realtà una "democrazia solo a parole, di fatto un regime personale". Di fronte al caso Pericle, non si tratta solo di capire come funziona la circolarità tra élite e masse, o, come si esprimeva Tucidide, tra "guidare" ed "essere guidati".

Dai conflitti con i Mapuche alla morte di Santiago Maldonado, ovvero tutto quello che i media italiani mainstream non hanno mai voluto raccontare sulla potente dinastia italiana e su come è diventata la padrona della Patagonia. Un audiolibro di denuncia sull'operato della famiglia Benetton in Argentina, ma anche una testimonianza sulla lotta degli indios Mapuche, il popolo originario della Patagonia, per i suoi diritti. Una testimonianza dalla "fine del mondo" che ci fa conoscere le profonde storture, ingiustizie, di un sistema socioeconomico.

Embark on a journey through 2,400 years of history with this definitive collection of 161 of the world’s greatest speeches. Presented chronologically, this master volume spans from the golden age of Athens in 431 BCE to the dawn of a new China in 1926, now complete with seminal speeches from India’s Mohandas Gandhi and China’s Mao Tse-Tung.