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Pericles  Wikipedia ~ Pericles was born c 495 BC in Athens Greece He was the son of the politician Xanthippus who though ostracized in 485–484 BC returned to Athens to command the Athenian contingent in the Greek victory at Mycale just five years later Pericles mother Agariste a member of the powerful and controversial noble family of the Alcmaeonidae and her familial connections played a crucial role 
Pericles  Athenian statesman  Britannica ~ Pericles born c 495 bce Athens—died 429 Athens Athenian statesman largely responsible for the full development in the later 5th century bce of both the Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire making Athens the political and cultural focus of Greece His achievements included the construction of the Acropolis begun in 447
Pericles  Ancient History Encyclopedia ~ Pericles was born in Athens in 495 BCE to an aristocratic family His father Xanthippus c 525475 BCE was a respected politician and war hero and his mother Agariste a member of the powerful and influential Alcmaeonidae family who encouraged the early development of Athenian democracy
Pericles  Restoring Athens’s preeminence  Britannica ~ Pericles  Pericles  Restoring Athens’s preeminence Hostilities among the Greek states had also come to an end in the Five Years’ Truce of 451 Pericles now embarked on a policy designed to secure Athens’s cultural and political leadership in Greece It had already dominated the alliance that had continued the Persian War after Sparta’s withdrawal in 478 a leadership strengthened by 
Pericles Funeral Oration  Wikipedia ~ Instead Pericles proposes to focus on the road by which we reached our position the form of government under which our greatness grew and the national habits out of which it sprang This amounts to a focus on presentday Athens Thucydides Pericles thus decides to praise the war dead by glorifying the city for which they died
Pericles Leader of Athens Biography ~ Pericles was the leader of Athens at the time of the building of the Parthenon and at the beginning of the devastating threates of Peloponnesian War Pericles was the leader of Athens at the time of the building of the Parthenon and at the beginning of the devastating threates of Peloponnesian War
Pericles—facts and information ~ Pericles also elevated Athens’s role within the Delian League a naval alliance of Greek citystates unified to fight the Persians He maneuvered Athens to primacy over other league members 
Ancient Heroes  Pericles of Athens hero of Greece ~ I think that Pericles was one of the greatest leaders of world history Not because he commanded strong armies or conquered exotic lands but because he built his city state from a city of ruin