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Pericles
Pericles was a Greek statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the firs…
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politics · Athenian statesman and general (c.-495,-429) · politician · military personnel · statesperson · orator · army officer · also Pericles, Perykles, Perikl, Perikles
Born 494 BC · Died 429 BC · Q80398
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2026· 5 entries
Remolacha: Cinedominicano.com cumple 22 años: de la visión de Pericles Mejía a una nueva etapa
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El Universo: La justicia se construye con leyes: el discurso fúnebre de Pericles
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Racing and Sports: Baker optimistic about spring carnival hopefuls Pericles, Green Spaces and Thebudgiesmugla
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Hear director Joseph Haj exploring the spiritual side of William Shakespeare's pirate-packed Pericles
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2022· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays
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2020· 1 entry
Politico Europe: What Boris Johnson can learn from Pericles
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2016· 1 entry
PBS: Pericles on his deathbed from The Greeks documentary
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1932· 1 entry
Botanist Albert Charles Smith published Periclesia, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Ecuador belonging to the family Ericaceae and named after Pericles
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