If you are talking about helping Athens, he was a general in the army and commanded contingents in several mostly successful wars.
He established himself as a political leader during the period when Athens' prosperity and power reached its zenith.
On the downside, he helped it into the Peloponnesian War which saw Athens stripped of its empire. He died two years into this 27-year war, so was not around to either guide it through the conflict or see the results of his handiwork.
Athens.
Pericles was but a boy after the repelling of the Persian invasion in 479 BCE. His building programme in Athens after peace was made with Persia was financed by the anti-Persian league treasury which he shifted from the temple at Delos to Athens and pillaged for the benefit of Athens.
When the Persians left Greece, Pericles was still a youth, so the rebuilding task fell to others.
Yes he used the extra war fund to build Parthenon
Pericles was a leader of Athens who was responsible for rebuilding Athens following the Persian Wars. He was also leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but he died of the plague that ravaged the city.
The Persian War and the Peloponnesian War 449-431 BCE.
The major figting was in the Persian invasion of 480-479 BCE, with final encounters in 466 and 451 BCE; a peace was made in 449 BCE.By the time Pericles came to pre-eminence in the mid-Fifth Century BCE, the Persian conflict was gone.So the answer is not at all.
It was between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire. Today we call it the Persian War to differentiate it from the wars between the Greek city-states. It is often called the Greco-Persian War.
The Persian Empire and a coalition of Greek city-states.
The Persian army, and the armies of the Greek city-states.
Which Persian War? Persia fought the Greek city-states over 2,000 years ago; is your question regarding that Persian War?
persian war