He was elected war general (as an unofficial leader) in the year 460 BC He was elected war general (as an unofficial leader) in the year 460 BC
General Ulysses S. Grant was elected President in 1868.
Pericles .
Pericles was a general and political leader in Athens.
Wow the 1st person wrote jofn8bchpnnrnvcmro. Anyway, Pericles presented pay to elected public government officals. In time, he paid ALL government officals, elected and appointed.
Pericles did not rule - Athens was a direct democracy, with the people assembling every couple of weeks to make laws and gice direction to a large executive council of 500. Pericles was a general (there were 10 of them - one elected by each tribe), however as a good orator, he was able to influence the popular assembly. He is better described as First Citizen. His influence lasted from about 450 BCE until hi death in 429 BCE.
There were many as each of the ten tribes elected a general each year. Generals served in both the army and navy. The best known would have been Pericles, and later his son Pericles. Also well known were the historian of the war Thucidydes, Alcibiades, Lysander and so on.
Pericles
There were many - Athens always had 10 generals at any one time, on elected from each of the ten tribes. An early well known one was Pericles, but he died early on from the plague. His son Pericles became a general, and the list goes on - some well-known/notorious ones were Alcibiades, Nicias, Thucydides, Theramenes,
General Ulysses S. Grant was elected President in 1868.
About 460 BCE
Pericles .
Pericles was a general and political leader in Athens.
They were elected each year, one from each tribe. So in Pericles' time of 20 years, there were many, including Pericles himself.
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.
Pericles was not an inventor, he was an Athenian general and statesman who lived in the fifth century BC.
Athens.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was elected President of the United States in 1869.