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Pericles

the First Citizen

Pericles was a Greek strategos active in the 5th c. BC during the Classical period based in Athens. Died: plague.

Historical Note

Transformed Athens into the cultural capital of antiquity and funded the Parthenon. Died of plague in 429 BC — the same epidemic he'd worsened by crowding citizens inside the walls.

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