But there was one politician who avoided this fate. His name was Pericles.

但是有一位政治家躲过了这样的命运。他名叫伯里克利。

Back in the time of Pericles, what did the winners of the Olympics wear?

回到伯里克利时代，奥运会的获胜者穿什么？

War was the life of the city and its pride, as Pericles argued.

正如伯里克利所说， 战争是城市的生命和骄傲。

It killed Pericles, the leader of Athens, in the autumn of that very same year, 429 BCE.

就在公元前 429 年的同年秋天， 它杀死了雅典的领袖伯里克利。

Of course, these words bring to mind Pericles' funeral oration over the war dead as it is recorded in Thucydides.

当然，这些话让人想起修昔底德 (Thucydides) 中记录的伯里克利 (Pericles) 对战死者的葬礼演说。

We had a German king who came to Greece from Bavaria, and the Germans decided they were going to resurrect the Athens of Pericles.

当时的国王是来自巴伐利亚的德国人。德国人决定重建伯里克利的雅典。

These values Pericles says enables Athens to provide a shining beacon of freedom and decency to the Greek world and now to our own times too.

Pericles說這些道德價值能使雅典人為希臘世界以及也為現在我們這時代提供自由和道德高尚的一束光亮的指路标。

You also had statesmen like Pericles, whose famous funeral oration brags about the golden democracy of Athens with rhetoric that wouldn’t sound out of place today.

你也有像伯里克利这样的政治家，他著名的葬礼演说吹嘘雅典的黄金民主制度， 其言辞在今天听起来不会格格不入。

We talk about the " golden age of comedy" – the period of time when the best comedies were written – or the " golden age of Greek literature, " during the time of Pericles, say.

我们谈论“喜剧的黄金时代”——写出最好的喜剧的时期——或者说伯里克利时代的“希腊文学的黄金时代”。

FINE. TROUBLE RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY WITH A CAPITAL T AND THAT RHYMES WITH P AND THAT STANDS FOR PELOPONNESE. Pericles’s funeral oration comes from a later war, The Peloponnesian War, a thirty year conflict between the Athenians and the Spartans.

美好的。 TROUBLE RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY 大写字母 T 与 P 押韵， 代表 PELOPONNESE。 伯里克利的葬礼演说来自后来的一场战争，伯罗奔尼撒战争， 一场雅典人和斯巴达人之间长达三十年的冲突。