his history gave much credit to Athens for its successful outcome for the Greeks.
Athens.
Pericles
No, he was a leader that rebuilt Athens after the Persian wars.
Yes.
Pericles was an ancient Renaissance type man. He served as an orator, soldier, statesman, and politician. He was prominent in the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
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.
Yes.
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.
Euhialtes, who disempowered the aristocrats in 460 BCE and created a democratic assembly of the citizens to govern Athens. For doing this he was assassinated and his deputy Pericles took over and developed the democracy further.
Yes he used the extra war fund to build Parthenon
Pericles .
As he was 15 at the time, he was below the military age of 18.