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Yes - he led wars to enhance Athens' territory, he turned the anti-Persian league of a couple of hundred allies into an empire, and diverted its funds into glorifying Athens by building and the arts, and put half of Athens' citizens on the public payroll, again diverting these funds. Those funds were golden, giving Athens its golden age until Pericles died and it over-reached itself under indifferent leadership, and was stripped of its empire.

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