Pericles was an Athenian statesman who played a large part in developing democracy in Athens and helped make it the political and cultural center of aboriginal Greece.

Pericles was born in 495 B.C.E. in Athens to an aristocratic family unit. He was a patron of the arts from an early on age and continued to promote literature and philosophy as an adult. His masterful oratory skills helped him rise to the top of Athenian politics where he began to introduce regime reforms.

Pericles set about toppling the Areopagus (ar-ee-OP-uh-guhs), or the noble council of Athens, in favor of a more than autonomous system that represented the interests of the people. He introduced the do of paying citizens to serve on juries, which immune poor men to leave work and participate in the justice system. This expanded citizen participation in politics.

Pericles too served equally commander-in-chief of the Athenian army during the Get-go Peloponnesian War. Even so, his near memorable feat was erecting the Acropolis in Athens. The Acropolis was a collection of public buildings and temples set atop a hill. Pericles himself oversaw the building of the Parthenon, at the Acropolis in Athens, which took 15 years to complete.

In 431 B.C.E. the Athenian pop associates declared war on Sparta, which launched the Athenians into the Second Peloponnesian War. Pericles began to plan his city'south defense, but he was stricken with plague and died two years later in 429 B.C.Due east.

Acropolis

Noun

big, flat-topped loma that is the highest point of the city of Athens, Greece.

ancient Hellenic republic

Noun

loosely united civilization founded on and around the Peloponnese peninsula, lasting from nigh the 8th century BCE to about 200 BCE.

aristocracy

Noun

aristocracy group of people based on wealth or social status.

Parthenon

Substantive

(438 BCE) ancient temple to the goddess Athena on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.

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