As well as Cleisthenes, who took power in Athens in 510 BC and again in 507 BC, their famous sons included Pericles ... inviting him to take as much gold as he could carry from his treasury.

Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC, relatively early in Pericles' long career as Athens' leading politician. He left a number of important plays that still survive today ...

Gold, with its high value ... between the Persian wars and the Peloponnesian war, when it was ruled by Pericles.