Cleon had succeeded Pericles as the dominant speaker in the assembly and increasingly he was able to manipulate the courts for political and personal ends, especially in the prosecution of public officials for mismanagement of their duties.

* Pericles of Athens, politician ( c. 495 – 429 BC )

** Pericles, Athenian politician ( d. 429 BC )

* Pericles, Athenian politician ( d. 429 BC )

* Lysicles: A leading politician killed on active service at about the time that Pericles died, he is the sheep-seller mentioned in an oracle as one of a series of Athenian leaders ( line 132 ) and he is a benchmark against which Cleon compares himself ( 765 ).

After Pericles ' death in 429 BC, Nicias became an important Athenian politician with the aristocratic ( conservative ) party looking to him as their leader.

* Thucydides ( politician ): The leader of the opposition to Pericles, he is mentioned here as the victim of an unfair trial motivated by Cleon.

* Pericles: A gifted orator and politician, he provoked the war with Sparta by his Megarian decree.

The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.

In 454 BC, the Athenian general Pericles moved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia.

However, Plutarch indicates that many of Pericles ' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as usurping monetary resources to fund elaborate building projects.

To further strengthen Athens ' grip on its empire, Pericles in 450 began a policy of establishing cleruchiai — quasi-colonies that remained tied to Athens and which served as garrisons to maintain control of the League's vast territory.

Furthermore, Pericles employed a number of offices to maintain Athens ' empire: proxenoi, who fostered good relations between Athens and League members ; episkopoi and archontes, who oversaw the collection of tribute ; and hellenotamiai, who received the tribute on Athens ' behalf.

Most of the major temples, including the Parthenon, were rebuilt under the leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens ( 460 – 430 BC ).

In the Plague of Athens, the city lost possibly one third of its population, including Pericles.

Oxfordians also claim that the fact that a number of the later plays ( such as Henry VIII, Macbeth, Timon of Athens and Pericles ) have been described as incomplete or collaborative is explained by these plays being either drafted earlier than conventionally believed, or simply revised / completed by others after Oxford's death.

In the mid-5th century BC, when the Athenian Acropolis became the seat of the Delian League and Athens was the greatest cultural centre of its time, Pericles initiated an ambitious building project that lasted the entire second half of the century.

He survived the Plague of Athens that killed Pericles and many other Athenians.

However, his reputation in Athens was rehabilitated by Pericles in the 450s BC, and by the time Herodotus wrote his history, Themistocles was once again seen as a hero.

Around 430 – 424 BC, a devastating plague, which some believe to have been typhoid fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader Pericles.

The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in the Greek ancient world.

* 1959 – 1961 Embassy of the United States, Athens, Greece ( The Architects ' Collaborative and consulting architect Pericles A. Sakellarios )

* 457 BC: Athenian statesman Pericles ' greatest reform, allowing common people to serve in any state office, inaugurates Golden Age of Ancient Athens.

* 447 BC: Athens begins construction of the Parthenon, at the initiative of Pericles.

* 445 BC: Pericles declares Thirty Years Peace between Athens and Sparta.

* c. 469 BC — birth of Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens ( d. c. 406 BC )

Athenian leader, Pericles, does not seriously oppose them, rather withdrawing the rural population of the country districts within Athens ' city walls.

* Pericles commissions the architects Kallikrates and Iktinos to design a larger temple for the Parthenon and the construction begins on rebuilding the great temple of Athena ( the Parthenon ) on the Acropolis at Athens soon afterwards.

Pericles (, Periklēs, " surrounded by glory "; c. 495 – 429 BC ) was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age — specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.

The Athenian strategy was initially guided by the strategos, or general, Pericles, who advised the Athenians to avoid open battle with the far more numerous and better trained Spartan hoplites, relying instead on the fleet.

Thucydides admired Pericles, approving of his power over the people and showing a marked distaste for the demagogues who followed him.

* 457 Pericles, Athenian statesman begins Golden Age, he was taught by Anaxagoras, who believed in dualistic Universe and atoms

R. J. Buck suggests that Thrasybulus, who came of age in the heady days when the democracy and empire under Pericles were at their fullest extent, never accepted that the devastating losses Athens had suffered in the Peloponnesian War made the return of those times impossible.

* In Athens, Ephialtes and Pericles finally get agreement to the ostracism of Kimon, who had become unpopular for his unsuccessful pro-Spartan policy.

Cleon, who has headed the opposition to Pericles ' rule, succeeds to power in Athens following Pericles ' death.

A body of Athenian colonists was accordingly sent out by Pericles, under the command of Lampon and Xenocritus ; but the number of Athenian citizens was small, the greater part of those who took part in the colony being collected from various parts of Greece.

* Pericles, the ruler of Athens, bestows generous wages on all Athens ' citizens who serve as jurymen on the Heliaia ( the supreme court of Athens ).

Kimon is charged by Pericles and other democratic politicians with having been bribed not to attack the King of Macedonia ( who may have been suspected of covertly helping the Thasian rebels ).

* Pericles: Among the most famous of Athenian leaders, he was blamed in The Acharnians for starting the Peloponnesian War but he receives some faint praise here as somebody who never stole food from the prytaneion-unlike Cleon ( line283 ).

Among these was Aspasia of Miletus, who was the mistress of Pericles and is said to have debated with Socrates himself.

As a result, he found himself acting in concert with the Athenian aristocratic parties, who also had no liking for Pericles.

400 BC ) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles.

Aspasia had a son by Pericles, Pericles the Younger, who later became a general in the Athenian military and was executed after the Battle of Arginusae.

According to Plutarch, it was thought that Aspasia, who came from Miletus, was responsible for the Samian War, and that Pericles had decided against and attacked Samos to gratify her.

The sculptor and mason of the structure was Phidias, who was employed by Pericles to build both the Erechtheum and the Parthenon.

However it may be, Wilkins published in 1608 a novel entitled The Painful Adventures of Pericles, Prynce of Tyre, described as " the true history of Pericles as it was lately presented by ... John Gower " ( who serves as narrator in the play ).

The only published text of Pericles, the 1609 quarto ( all subsequent quartos were reprints of the original ), is manifestly corrupt ; it is often clumsily-written and incomprehensible and has been interpreted as a pirated text reconstructed from memory by someone who witnessed the play ( much like theories surrounding the 1603 " bad quarto " of Hamlet ).