Plato, Gorgias, section 455e

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[455e] that these great arsenals and walls of Athens, and the construction of your harbors, are due to the advice of Themistocles, and in part to that of Pericles, not to your craftsmen.

Socrates
So we are told, Gorgias, of Themistocles; and as to Pericles, I heard him myself when he was advising us about the middle wall.¹

1 Built about 440 B.C. between the two walls built in 456 B.C., one connecting the Piraeus, and the other Phalerum, with Athens. The “middle wall” ran parallel to the former, and secured from hostile attack a narrow strip of land between Athens and the Piraeus. Socrates was born in 469 B.C.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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Commentary references to this page (3):
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 503c
- Gonzalez Lodge, Commentary on Plato: Gorgias, 519a
- James Adam, The Republic of Plato, 4.439E
Cross-references in notes to this page (2):
- Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander, New Directions in Philosophy and Education
- Plutarch, Pericles, Plut. Per. 13
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (1):
- LSJ, τεῖχος