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'''Pericles''' (495 to 429 B.C.) was an [[Athens|Athenian]] general and statesman who ruled the Athenian [[Democracy]] during its ''golden age''.

'''Pericles''' (Greek: Περικλης) (495 to 429 B.C.) was an [[Athens|Athenian]] orator, general and statesman who ruled the Athenian [[Democracy]] during its ''golden age''.

Coming to power in 461 B.C. after winning a power struggle against [[Cimon]], he saw Athens further sprout into an economic, philosophical, and military power expanding its influence over most of [[Greece]]. The [[Parthenon]] was built by his request. After a truce with [[Sparta]] in 445 B.C. the peace from 445 B.C. to 431 B.C. was considered the golden age of Athens.

Coming to power in 461 B.C. after winning a power struggle against [[Cimon]], he saw Athens further sprout into an economic, [[philosophical]], and military power expanding its influence over most of [[Greece]]. The [[Parthenon]] was built by his request. After a truce with [[Sparta]] in 445 B.C. the peace from 445 B.C. to 431 B.C. was considered the golden age of Athens.

One of the instigators of the [[Peloponnesian War]] against Sparta in 431 B.C., he was deposed and then re-elected, and then died of the plague in 429 B.C.  His untimately death may have helped to bring about the defeat of Athens.

One of the instigators of the [[Peloponnesian War]] against Sparta in 431 B.C., he was deposed and then re-elected, and then died of the plague in 429 B.C.  His untimately death may have helped to bring about the defeat of Athens.

== Sources ==

== Sources ==

The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989

* The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989

[[Category:Ancient Greece]]

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[[Category:Heads of State]]

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