Pericles was the dominant Athenian statesman of the Golden Age who oversaw the construction of the Parthenon and led Athens at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War.
Pericles embodied Aristotle's paradigm of practical wisdom (phronesis) combined with excellence of character, justifying his supreme political authority by his virtues; his Funeral Oration remains the defining statement of democratic ideals in the ancient world.
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