The assembly responded by declaring war on Sparta. Pericles insisted that Athens would win the war by superior planning. To be successful the Athenians must abandon the surrounding land and ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

Aspasia of Miletus is best known for her relationship with Pericles — the 5th-century BCE democratic leader of Athens.

Athens had become the school of Greece. Pericles' was by now far too popular for his rivals to topple him as the city's leader. So instead, they attacked his close associates in the courts.

After the dead had been buried in a public grave, one of the leading citizens, chosen by the city, would offer a suitable speech, and on this occasion Pericles was chosen. The Funeral Oration has ...

Pericles, in an attempt to win the hand of the daughter of King Antiochus, accepts a challenge from the king. He must answer a riddle to win her hand but if he fails, he will be put to death ...

Athens, in Attica (a province of central Greece ... between the Persian wars and the Peloponnesian war, when it was ruled by Pericles.

As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426. The dead included Pericles, the populist leader who had turned Athens into an imperial power. The Peloponnesian War ...