| Pro | Aspasia | | One of the protagonists. |
| | Athena | | One of the Greek Gods. Zeus's daughter. |
| | Zeus | | God of Thunder and Sky. |
| | Silky | | The girl that Aspasia befriended. |
| 1 | Pericles | | A General. Protagonist. |
| | Phidias | | Pericles's companion. The sculptor. |
| | Euripides | | A playwright. |
| | Dion | | The book seller. Aspasia's friend. |
| | Philetarus | | Dion's father. |
| | Hippodamus | | Aspasia's cousin. |
| 2 | Cleinias | | Pericles' cousin. A general. |
| | Damon | | Pericles' advisor. |
| | Socrates | | The stone-cutter. |
| | Herodotus | | A historian. |
| 3 | Rhodia | | Silky's master. |
| | Ictinus | | The architect. Silky's lover. |
| 4 | Argos | | Pericles' puppy. |
| | Euangelus | | Pericles' steward. |
| | Aristocleia | | Pericles' wife. |
| | Xanthippus | | Pericles and Aristocleia's son. |
| | Paralus | | Pericles and Aristocleia's son. |
| | Homer | | Greek poet. |
| | Hipponicus | | Father of Aristocleia's first born son. |
| 5 | Thucydides | | A general. Pericles' rival. |
| | Lugadamis | | The famous athlete. |
| | Simon | | The boot maker. |
| | Xenon | | The barber. |
| 6 | Nausicaa | | Daughter of the King of the Island. |
| | Odyseuss | | Greek King of Ithaca. |
| | Agariste | | Pericles' mother. |
| 7 | Ariphron | | Pericles' brother. |
| | Tolmides | | One of the generals. |
| 9 | Old Zoe | | The house slave. |
| | Sophocles | | The playwright. |
| | Anaxagoras | | One of the sculptors. |
| | Agoracritus. | | Phidias' apprentice. |
| | Dracontides | | A chief priest. |
| 11 | Andocides | | One of the generals. |
| | Glaucon | | One of Pericles' men. |
| | Cleandridas | | King Pleistonax's uncle. |
| 12 | Hypanis | |
Hippodamus' buyer of the house. |
| 13 | Protagoras | | Pericles's 2nd philosopher. |
| 15 | Sparta | | The man who tried to destroy Athens. |
| | Archestratus | | Pericles' politics companion. |
| | Alcibiades | | Cleinias' son. |
| | Themistocles | | One of the generals. |
| | Megacles | | Pericles's great-uncle. |
| 16 | Amycla | | Spartan nurse. |
| | Pyrilampes | | Pericles's friend. |
| 19 | Silenus | | The merchant. |
| 20 | Psammetichus | | The King. |
| | Cleon | | Pericles's nemesis. |
| 21 | Philemon | | The young groom from Pericles's country estate. |
| | Lampon | | The theer. |
| 22 | General | Cimon |
Thucydides cousin. |
| | Teisander | | Pericles's friend. |
| 24 | Little | Pericles | Pericles and Aspasia's son. |
| 25 | Melesias | | Thucydides' father. |
| | Xanthippus Sr. | | Pericles's father. |
| 26 | Hygiaenon | | An athlete. |
| | Epilycus | | Xanthippus' son. |
| | Stephanus | |
Thucydides' son. |
| | Demodicus | | A ship captain. |
| 28 | Menon | | Phidias's friend. |
| 30 | Antipatrus | | The Samin Democrat |
| 31 | Kore | | The maiden. |
| | Demeter | | Kore's mother. |
| 32 | Calliope | | Pericles's sister. |
| 33 | Hagnon | | Newly hired General. Pericles's friend. |
| | Anticles | | Newly hired General. Pericles's friend. |
| | Melissus | | Philosopher. |
| | Agamemnon | | Leader of the Greeks at Troy. |
| | Democritus | | Philosopher. |
| | Phormio | | A general. |
| 34 | Ephialtes | | Murdered. |
| 35 | Cratinus | | The comic poets. |
| 36 | Polyclitus | | Sculptor from Greece. |
| | Philip | | King of Macedonia. |
| | Timesilaus | | Tyrant of Sinope. |
| | Anataxerxes | | King of Persia. King of Kings. |
| | Tleson | | The jailer's son. |
| | Tleson Sr. | | The jailer. |
| | Antigonus | | The best helmsman. |
| 37 | Lysicles | | Pericles's new friend. |
| | Eucleia | | Xanthippus's girlfriend. |
| | Hades | | Teisander's son. |
| 39 | Alcamanes | | The sculptor. |
| 40 | Douris | | The assembly presiding officer. |
| | Charmides | | Phidias's father. |
