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Pericles (Greek Περικλῆς) was general or strategos of Athens, statesman and orator. He led the city from c. 461 BC to 429 BC, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.Roman copy after a Greek original from c. 430 BC This period is known as Athens’ Golden Age or Age of Pericles. He practically ruled as a king over the Athenian democracy, and built the city into a powerful Empire. He was the one who masterminded the building of the Parthenon c. 450. Pericles died in the year 429 BC around the age of sixty-five, from the great plague that wiped out a quarter of the Athenian population. After his death, Athens lost the second Peloponnesian War to Sparta: the city had come to the end of its Empire.

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The School of Athens, Raphael, 1509-1510

Raffaelo or Raphael, La Scuola di Atene (1509-1510).
Vatican City, Apostolic Palace.

This picture, “The School of Athens”, by the most famous Italian Renaissance artist Raphael shows the greatest scientists and philosophers of classical antiquity. Standing at the top of the steps, you can see the two Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle (the younger one).

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