Pericles


 * Ruler of the Athenian Golden Age
 * Gave a famed funeral oration to commemorate the first year of the Peloponnesian War
 * Thucydides described his plan for using Athens 's superior nacy and wall in an attempt to win
 * Died of a plague in 429 BCE
 * Critics frequently attacked his Milesian mistress, Aspasia
 * Paid off King Pleistoanax so that he could focus on suppressing a revolt in Euboea
 * A relative of Cimon was ostracized for publicly opposing one of his building plans
 * Served as choregos by financing Aeschylus's play The Persians
 * Instituted legal reforms:
 * Citizenship only to those with a native-born mother and father
 * Paying jurors