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The 22 pages that link to Pericles, each with the reason it gives.

• Athenian democracyRelated: His leadership and funeral oration became lasting symbols of fifth-century Athenian democracy.

• Peloponnesian WarRelated: His defensive strategy relied on Athens’ walls, navy, and resources.

• ThucydidesRelated: Thucydides presents Pericles’ strategy and funeral oration as defining moments in Athens’ wartime politics.

• Delian LeagueRelated: His era saw the league’s resources used increasingly to support Athenian projects.

• AthensRelated: His leadership coincided with democracy’s expansion and major construction on the Acropolis.

• ParthenonRelated: Pericles championed the Acropolis building program in which the Parthenon was constructed.

• Athenian EmpireRelated: His leadership coincided with the empire’s height and its use of allied resources for Athenian building.

• SophoclesRelated: Sophocles’ lifetime overlapped with the political leadership associated with Athens’ cultural expansion.

• Acropolis of AthensRelated: His political leadership supported the Acropolis building program.

• PhidiasRelated: Pericles directed the building program with which Phidias’s Athenian career is closely associated.

• Classical AthensRelated: His political leadership coincided with Athens’s imperial peak and major civic building program.

• AlcibiadesRelated: Pericles was Alcibiades’ guardian and a formative figure in his political world.

• Classical GreeceRelated: His leadership connected democracy, imperial power, and monumental building in Athens.

• AnaxagorasRelated: Later tradition links Anaxagoras to Pericles as a friend or intellectual influence.

• Classical Greek artRelated: His building program helped finance Athens's major classical monuments.

• Athena ParthenosRelated: His political leadership shaped the building program that included the Parthenon and its image of Athena.

• ProtagorasRelated: Ancient tradition connects Protagoras with Pericles and Athenian public life.

• Artaxerxes IRelated: His era overlapped with Artaxerxes’ rule and Athens’ imperial rivalry with Persia.

• Athena PromachosRelated: The statue arose amid the public building program associated with his leadership.

• Athens in the 5th century BCRelated: His political leadership and building program became closely associated with Athens’ peak.