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He had no such ambition. Athens was a small city in a big world, including a couple of thousand other Greek city-states.

He wanted to use the money extorted from Athens' empire to glorify Athens and spend on raising the Athenian living standards, both for the benefit of the citizens and to cement his own status as First Citizen in a volatile political environment.

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