Pericles' legacy is Athenian imperialism, which denies true democracy and freedom to the people of all but the ruling state. The promotion of such an arrogant imperialism is said to have ruined Athens. Pericles and his "expansionary" policies have been at the center of arguments promoting democracy in oppressed countries. Other analysts maintain an Athenian humanism illustrated in the Golden Age. The freedom of expression is regarded as the lasting legacy deriving from this period. Pericles is lauded as "the ideal type of the perfect statesman in ancient Greece" and his Funeral Oration is nowadays synonymous with the struggle for participatory democracy and civic pride. In 1932, botanist Albert Charles Smith published Periclesia, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Ecuador belonging to the family Ericaceae and named after Pericles. The exterior of the ETH Zurich University Archives has a wall painting with the face of Pericles, together with Homer and Aristotle. In popular culture In the 1968 Star Trek episode Plato's Stepchildren, Captain Kirk is presented with the shield of Pericles by the leader of the Platonian race. In the 2016 video game Civilization VI Pericles is one of the two playable leaders for the Greek civilization, the other being Gorgo. In the 2018 video game Assassin's Creed Odyssey Pericles's life as a politician and his death are both presented, although his death being from injuries sustained during a violent attack is not historically accurate. See also Art in ancient Greece Culture of Greece Sculpture of ancient Greece Timeline of ancient Greece Pericles, Prince of Tyre Notes Citations References Primary sources (Greek and Roman) Aristophanes, The Acharnians. See original text in Perseus program (translation) See original text in Perseus program. Aristotle, Politika (Politics). See original text in Perseus program (translation) Cicero, De Oratore. See original text in Perseus program. Diodorus Siculus, Library, 12th Book. See original text in Perseus program (translation) Herodotus, The Histories, VI. See original text in Perseus program (translation) Plato, Alcibiades I. See original text in Perseus program (translation) from Plato, Gorgias. See original text in Perseus program, 455d, 455e, 515e (translation) from Plato, Menexenus. See original text in Perseus program (translation) from Plato, Phaedrus, See original text in Perseus program (translation) from Plutarch, Cimon. See original text in Perseus program (translation) See original text in Perseus program Quintilian, Institutiones. See original text in The Latin Library. , I–III. See original text in Perseus program Xenophon