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To strengthen Athenian democracy, to hold and strengthen he empire, and to glorify Athens
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Pericles had three goals for Athens. The first was to strengthen democracy. The second was to expand the empire. The third was to beautify Athens.
(1) to strengthen athenian democracy(2) to hold and strngthen the empire (3)to glorify Athens
(1) to strengthen athenian democracy(2) to hold and strngthen the empire (3)to glorify Athens
He had a list of things to do and just did them his own way.
1.) strengthen Athenian democracy. 2.) hold and strengthen empire. 3.) clarify Athens.
I believe it is Perciles..Pericles. He persuaded Athenians to make an empire out of the anti-Persian league which it had been leading, and diverted the funds being collected for that purpose to glorify Athens put half its population on the public payroll.
When Athens became over-confident and began to interfere in the territories of the Peloponnesian League, it created bitter opposition, leading to the destructive 27-year Peloponnesian War, which Athens lost and was stripped of its empire, becoming a second rate power.
Pericles promoted imperialism. Sparta was the isolationist and considered as threat to the Athenian Empire.
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.
It was golden not because of Pericles but because of the gold Athens mulcted as taxes from the 200 Greek cities of its empire. This money bankrolled the Golden Age, which came to an end when Athens lost this empire and its gold.