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PERICLES (495?-429 BC).

The "glory that was Greece" reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles.

He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.

Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position.

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His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus' play 'The Persians'.

Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458.

Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 3