Pericles expanded the democracy by instituting payment for service in public office and jury duty. This allowed many who could not financially afford to take office in the government to participate. This extended not only in theory, but in reality, the governance of Athens to all its citizens.
If you mean after the Persian wars then his goal was more to increase the power of Athens over the delian league and to create the empire than to have it labelled democratic. He overcame the food crisis by using a citizenship act ruling any current athenian citizen as a slave unless both parents were Athenian also, he also created legions in Italy to get rid of soldiers and increased the amount of forces on the black sea, which also helped secure the corn supplies to Athens. These methods also helped him overcome the unemployment crisis, although the rebuilding of Athens was doing a fine job in itself.
After overcoming these problems, he could resume gaining more and more unfair tribute from the leagues allies using technical specificity. money was the more powerful substance in Athens rather than democracy. This only applies if your talking about the period after the Persian wars.
Pericles
Pericles was not a democracy. Pericles was a statesman in Athens and was considered today as a general. Pericles did not make Democracy. The people of Greece did.
Athens became very powerful and more democratic
Athens became very powerful and more democratic
He encouraged the idea
Pericles had been educated by some of the leading philosophers of his day. Pericles was strongly influenced by Aspasia, a female philosopher and courtesan from Miletus, who lived in Athens, Greece. He was also influenced by his great uncle, Cleisthenes. Cleisthenes had given Athens its first democratic constitution. Pericles was determined to continue the reforms of his great uncle and serve his city-state by making it more democratic than ever.
athens beacuse they were more about democratic anyway.
pericles beautifies athens by making more things than weapons with the money sparta etc.. gave them
Pericles.
became more democratic
Ostracism got rid of troublesome political opponents. It depended on where you stood whether those banished were an opponent of democracy or a force for good. After Pericles' death, self-interested leaders used it as a weapon to their own benefit.
(1) to strengthen athenian democracy(2) to hold and strngthen the empire (3)to glorify Athens