Athenian statesman, orator and general (c. 495 – 429 BC)
For other uses, see Pericles (disambiguation).
Pericles
Bust of Pericles bearing the inscription "Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian". Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from c. 430 BC, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums,
Born
c. 495 BC Athens, Greece
Died
429 BC (aged c. 65 – 66) Athens, Greece
Allegiance
Athens
Rank
Strategos
Battles/wars
First Peloponnesian War
Battles of Sicyon and Acarnania
Second Sacred War
Samian War
Peloponnesian War
Spouse(s)
Aspasia of Miletus
Children
Paralus and Xanthippus
Pericles the Younger
Relations
Xanthippus (father) Agariste (mother)
Pericles (/ˈpɛrɪkliːz/, Greek: Περικλῆς; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens".[1] 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 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", but the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars or as late as the following century.
Pericles promoted the arts and literature, and it was principally through his efforts that Athens acquired the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon. This project beautified and protected the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to its people.[2] Pericles also fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics called him a populist.[3][4] Pericles was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. He, along with several members of his family, succumbed to the Plague of Athens in 429 BC, which weakened the city-state during a protracted conflict with Sparta.
^Thucydides, 2.65
^L. de Blois, An Introduction to the Ancient World 99
^S. Muhlberger, Periclean Athens Archived 14 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
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