Pericles+by+Iago+Menendez

Pericles during a speech in Athens Pericles is show in the sculptures always with a helmet because of his military range Athenian empire
 * =**__Pericles__** in Greek means//://__"//surrounded by glory//"__. He was a famous leader of Athens.=
 * =He was a great statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age ( During //__the Peloponnesian Wars__//).=
 * =He lived from 495 to 429 B.C approximately.=
 * =He was born in Cholargos, in the north of Athens.=
 * =His father, Xanthyppus, was a statesman too and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the noble family __//Alcmaeonidae//__.=
 * =During the 5th Century the Peloponnesian Wars took place. They were the wars between Athens and Sparta.=
 * =Pericles did his first military works as the leader of Athens during the __//1st Peloponnesian// //War.//__=
 * =When Pericles' main political opponent, Cimon, was ostracised from Athens, Pericles was able to increase his authority and he became the new leader of Athens.=
 * =By the time he was the Athenian leader, Athens was in the //__Delian League__//, a union of Greek polis against the Persians.=
 * =In the __//Delian// //League//__ each Polis member had to pay a tribute to keep an army (soldiers, ships, etc).=
 * =All the money was kept in Delos, an island in the __//Aegean Sea.//__=
 * =Pericles wanted that Athens dominated Greece, so he decided to move the treasury to Athens.=
 * =Like that Athens created his empire.=
 * =He married Aspasia (we know very little about his life) and they had a son.=
 * =Pericles die finaly in 429 B.C. He leaded Athens until his death.=
 * =Pericles was so popular that the 5th Century B.C is known as the Age of Pericles.=