Pericles. Engraving of Classical Greek marble bust of the statesman and orator Pericles ( BC), who presided over the prosperous \Golden Age\"

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Pericles. Engraving of Classical Greek marble bust of the statesman and orator Pericles ( BC), who presided over the prosperous \Golden Age\" of Athens. Politically a radical, Pericles helped to push through the reforms that led to full Athenian democracy. His hostility towards the rival Greek power of Sparta led to the Peloponnes- ian War (431-404 BC) and his overthrow in 430 BC. Although quickly reinstated Pericles died shortly after of the bubonic plague. At a funeral speech in honour of Athens' war-dead he said \"One's sense of honour is the only thing that does not grow old\"."

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Keywords: athens, bubonic, bust, greek, marble, pericles, plague, portraits, ruler, statue, surname, victim