Examples of Pericles in the following topics:
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- Athens attained its Golden Age under Pericles in the 5th century BCE, and flourished culturally as the hegemonic power of the Hellenic world.
- The latter part of this time period is often called The Age of Pericles.
- With the empire's funds, military dominance, and its political fortunes as guided by statesman and orator Pericles, Athens produced some of the most influential and enduring cultural artifacts of Western tradition, during what became known as the Golden Age of Athenian democracy, or the Age of Pericles.
- Pericles was
arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator, and
general of Athens during its Golden Age.
- All magistrates
served for a year or less, with the exception of Pericles, who was elected year
after year to public office.
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- During the reforms of Ephialtes and Pericles around 460-450 BCE, thetes were granted the right to hold
public office.
- One famous example of a hetaera is Pericles’ mistress, Aspasia of Miletus,
who is said to have debated with prominent writers and thinkers, including
Socrates.
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- The great statesman Pericles was closely associated with these new teachings, however, and his political opponents struck at him by taking advantage of a conservative reaction against the philosophers.
- He liked to observe that successful fathers (such as the prominent military general Pericles) did not produce sons of their own quality.
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- Initially Athens’ strategy, as guided by Pericles, was to
avoid open battle with the more numerous, and better trained Spartan hoplites, and to instead rely on Athens’ superior fleet.
- Pericles and his sons perished as a result of plague, and in
the aftermath, Athenians turned against Pericles’s defensive strategy in favor
of a more aggressive one that would bring war directly to Sparta and its
allies.