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How did Pericles beoame ruler?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Pericles was never ruler of Athens. He established a radical democracy where the male citizens met in fortnightly assembly and mad decisions on how the city-state was run. Pericles called himself First Citizen and had to persuade and convince them to vote for propositions he raised, not all of which succeeded. When the tide was going against him, he manoeuvred Athens into war with the Peloponnesian League to re-establish his influence.

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9y ago

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