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Pericles

c. 495–429 BC

Athenian statesman and general, dominant in Athens from about 461 to his death in 429 BC. Under him Athens reached the height of its power and built the Parthenon, and democracy paid its citizens to serve on juries and row in the fleet. He died of the plague in the second year of the Peloponnesian War.

Facts

Born: About 495 BC, Athens.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Pericles
Died: 429 BC, of plague, Athens.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Pericles
Office: Strategos, elected general, for many years from 443 BC.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Pericles
Known for: The Age of Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Funeral Oration recorded by Thucydides.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Pericles

Images

Bust of Pericles, Roman copy of a Greek original (photograph via Wikimedia Commons)

Connected

CountryGreece1830–CivilizationClassical Athens5th–4th century BC

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