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          5. Pericles Biography

          Born: c. 495 B.C.E.
          Athens, Greece
          Died: 429 B.C.E.
          Athens, Greece
          Greek statesman

          Pericles was the leading statesman of Athens and brought it to the height of its political power and artistic achievement.

          The years from 446 to 429 B.C.E. have been called the Periclean Age.

          Early life and family

          Pericles was the son of Xanthippus, a statesman and general of an upper class family (probably the Bouzygae), and Agariste, a niece of the famous statesman Cleisthenes, the leader of a powerful clan, the Alcmeonidae.

          Pericles childhood

          Pericles inherited great wealth; as a young man, he put up the money for the costly production of Aeschylus's play The Persae in 472 B.C.E. Pericles received the best education available, studying music under Damon and mathematics under Zeno of Elea.

          His greatest influence was a scholar named Anaxagoras, who taught him how to make speeches and was a model of the calm style that Pericles would use in politics.