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Ancient Greece · c. 495–429 BC
Pericles
Περικλῆς · Greece
Athenian statesman and general
He dominated Athenian politics from about 461 to 429 BC, a period often called the 'Age of Pericles'. He used the treasury of the Delian League to fund the great building programme on the Acropolis, including the Parthenon, the Propylaea and the gold-and-ivory statue of Athena carved by his friend Phidias. In the winter of 431–430 BC he delivered his famous Funeral Oration; he died in the plague of Athens in 429 BC.
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Historia · The Acropolis of Athens
Pericles' Acropolis
In the golden age of 5th-century BC Athens, Pericles used the treasury of the Delian League to fund the building of the Acropolis complex. The Parthenon was begun in 447 BC and largely completed in 438 BC, with decoration continuing until 432 BC; the whole project was supervised by Phidias, whose own gold-and-ivory statue of Athena stood in the temple's inner chamber. More than two thousand years later, in 1687, a Venetian army bombarded the Acropolis, and gunpowder the Ottomans had stored in the temple was hit and exploded, badly damaging the temple and leaving it roughly as it is today.
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