Pericles lifted Athens into a golden age through his support of the arts, architecture, philosophy, and democracy building.

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...

The dead included Pericles, the populist leader who had turned Athens into an imperial power. The Peloponnesian War, launched ...

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