* Pericles, concerned over the draining effect of years of war on Athenian manpower, looks for peace with the support of the Assembly.

Ancient writers also reported that Aspasia was a brothel keeper and a harlot, although these accounts are disputed by modern scholars, on the grounds that many of the writers were comic poets concerned with defaming Pericles.

Pericles learned to love and admire him, and the poet Euripides derived from him an enthusiasm for science and humanity.

Diogenes Laertius reports the story that he was prosecuted by Cleon for impiety, but Plutarch says that Pericles sent his former tutor, Anaxagoras, to Lampsacus for his own safety after the Athenians began to blame him for the Peloponnesian war.

Payment for jurors was introduced around 462 BC and is ascribed to Pericles, a feature described by Aristotle as fundamental to radical democracy ( Politics 1294a37 ).

State graves were built on either side of the Dipylon Gate, for the interment of prominent personages such as notable warriors and statesmen, including Pericles and Cleisthenes.

It was possible for the assembly to recall an ostracised person ahead of time ; before the Persian invasion of 479 BC, an amnesty was declared under which at least two ostracised leaders — Pericles ' father Xanthippus and Aristides ' the Just '— are known to have returned.

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

* 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.

The famous statesman Pericles also commissioned several sculptures for Athens from him in 447 BC, to celebrate Greek victory against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon during the Greco-Persian Wars ( 490 BC ).

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

* The army of Sparta loots Attica for a second time, but Pericles is not daunted and refuses to revise his initial strategy.

* Under the leadership of Pericles, Athens introduces a series of measures ( the " Megarian decree ") imposing an economic embargo on Megara for violations of land sacred to Demeter.

The ambitious new leader of the conservatives, Thucydides, accuses the leader of the democratic faction, Pericles, of profligacy and criticises the way Pericles is spending money on his ambitious building plans for the city.

Pericles responds by proposing to reimburse the city for all the expenses from his private property, on the condition that he would make the inscriptions of dedication in his own name.

* As a result of his failure to effectively challenge Pericles, the Athenian citizens ostracise Thucydides for 10 years and Pericles is once again unchallenged in Athenian politics.

* In Athens, the democratic statesman Ephialtes and the young Pericles attempt to get the oligarchic Kimon ostracized for allegedly receiving bribes.

Led by Pericles, the Athenians subdued the revolt, and captured Histiaea in the north of the island for their own settlement.

Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles ' olive-wood club.

* Pericles: The dominant politician in pre-war Athens who once famously bribed a Spartan general to avoid battle and subsequently accounted for the bribe as " lost according to need ".

The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles ; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War.

Athenian citizens had to be descended from citizens — after the reforms of Pericles and Cimon in 450 BC on both sides of the family, excluding the children of Athenian men and foreign women.

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

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.

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.

Under the guidance of Pericles, the Delian league gradually evolved into the Athenian Empire, the zenith of Athenian power and influence.

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.

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

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

* Pericles leads Athenian forces in the expulsion of barbarians from the Thracian peninsula of Gallipoli, in order to establish Athenian colonists in the region.

Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as " the first citizen of Athens ".

* Aspasia ( 469 BC-409 BC ), lover of the Athenian statesman Pericles

When he first left the ecclesia ( the Athenian Assembly ) disheartened, an old man named Eunomus encouraged him, saying his diction was very much like that of Pericles.

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

* 429 BC – Pericles, Athenian statesman ( epidemic )

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

* 429 Pericles dies of Athenian Plague, possibly typhus or bubonic plague

* Pericles, Athenian politician ( d. 429 BC )

The Athenian generals ( including Pericles ' son ) are put to death.

* Ephialtes, with the support of Pericles, reduces the power of the Athenian Council of Areopagus ( filled with ex-archons and so a stronghold of oligarchy ) and transfers them to the people, i. e. the Council of Five Hundred, the Assembly and the popular law courts.

* An Athenian law sponsored by Pericles is passed giving citizenship only to those born of Athenian parents.