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Pericles

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Athens, Greece

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Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (c. 495 – 429 BC) was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age—specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.

Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 B.C, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", though the period thus denot...more

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	The Funeral Oration of Pericles 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1948	My rating:
	Empire and the Ends of Politics: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' Funeral Oration by Plato, Pericles, Susan Collins (Translator) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating: