Pericles
The Athenian golden age took off under the control of Pericles. Although he didn’t just take it over it all began somewhere. It started off in Greece in the city-state known as Athens 495 BC, Pericles was rather luckily he grew up already in one of the better Athenian families they had a lot of money, his father was Xanthippus a very strong military leader. Pericles was rather lucky he was taught by some of the best scholars out there. Pericles loved music, politics, and philosophy he was a well-rounded man. Pericles is known for a couple of good things such as he was the reason Cimon got kicked out of Athens, he led the golden age and was there to go through the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. During the golden age western culture …show more content…
There was to be no on land battling it would all be done in the water. Pericles had man one of his most famous speeches during this time for the people who had already died during the war the name of this speech was called the Funeral Oration. Pericles had made sure everything would be perfect until something even he couldn’t have stopped a deadly plague had stricken his cargo ship and tons of people had gotten infected and died including Pericles two sons. Eventually even the plague had taken Pericles he was getting ill and growing weak. If that wasn’t bad the people he once led and the people that looked up to brought him back to the place he was once loved in that would be to court. They tried him and Pericles was heavily fined he got his title taken away. In all of the commotion that was happening Pericles’s other son Aspasia had taken his spot and a peace offering was sent to Sparta and the war had ended. The legacy of Pericles is said to be “Athenian imperialism, which denies true democracy and freedom to the people of all but the ruling state. The promotion of such an arrogant imperialism is said to have ruined Athens” says Victor L. Ehrenberg. He is simply saying that democracy wasn’t
The Athenian golden age took off under the control of Pericles. Although he didn’t just take it over it all began somewhere. It started off in Greece in the city-state known as Athens 495 BC, Pericles was rather luckily he grew up already in one of the better Athenian families they had a lot of money, his father was Xanthippus a very strong military leader. Pericles was rather lucky he was taught by some of the best scholars out there. Pericles loved music, politics, and philosophy he was a well-rounded man. Pericles is known for a couple of good things such as he was the reason Cimon got kicked out of Athens, he led the golden age and was there to go through the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. During the golden age western culture …show more content…
There was to be no on land battling it would all be done in the water. Pericles had man one of his most famous speeches during this time for the people who had already died during the war the name of this speech was called the Funeral Oration. Pericles had made sure everything would be perfect until something even he couldn’t have stopped a deadly plague had stricken his cargo ship and tons of people had gotten infected and died including Pericles two sons. Eventually even the plague had taken Pericles he was getting ill and growing weak. If that wasn’t bad the people he once led and the people that looked up to brought him back to the place he was once loved in that would be to court. They tried him and Pericles was heavily fined he got his title taken away. In all of the commotion that was happening Pericles’s other son Aspasia had taken his spot and a peace offering was sent to Sparta and the war had ended. The legacy of Pericles is said to be “Athenian imperialism, which denies true democracy and freedom to the people of all but the ruling state. The promotion of such an arrogant imperialism is said to have ruined Athens” says Victor L. Ehrenberg. He is simply saying that democracy wasn’t