How was democracy expanded the age of pericles?

Answer 1

By the system called direct democracy. : )

Pericles first had Thucydides son of Melesias ostracised and expelled, which took out the leader of the conservative opposition. He then devolved power to the Assembly of all citizens, which met fortnightly and gave directions to the Council of 500 which carried out the Assembly's directions. The law courts were also manned by citizen juries, with no judges to interfere in their decisions of guilt and punishment.

All office-bearers were chosen by lot - ie at random. This left power in the hands of the citizens. Pericles himself, as 'First Citizen', had to persuade the Assembly to follow his proposed courses of action, not always successfully.

This radical democracy had its failings, especially when the people were led astray by slick orators in the Assembly, and this became the undoing of Athens in the Peloponnesian War when it was defeated and stripped of its empire.

Prior to Pericles reign, only the aristocrats were permitted to run for and hold political office. He expanded democracy by allowing lower-class men to run for political office as well. He also supported philosophers, architects and authors and was considered one of Greeceâ??s great statesmen.

Answer 2

In the late 460s BCE democratic leader Ephialtes took power from the aristocratic Council of the Areapagus to fully establish the democracy begun by Cleisthenes in 508 BCE. Ephialtes was assassinated for this and his deputy Pericles took over the democratic leadership after organising the banishment of the popular conservative leader war hero Cimon.

As part of maintaining his leading position he first organised the banishment of the conservative leader Thucydides son of Melesias, and radicalised the democracy by organising fortnightly meetings of the citizen body which directed the city in detail, with the Council carrying out its orders. The law courts were also run by large juries without judges, deciding both verdicts and sentences.

This left the citizens in control, for better or worse. Later on after Pericles' death of the plague in 429 BCE it was more often for worse as demagogues were able to influence the people to do stupid things, and several times the radical democracy was replaced by broad-based oligarchies to get the city out of trouble.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

pericles helped democracy because he supported it and agreed with it

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