Greece: Marble bust of Pericles (c. 495 - 429 BCE), Athenian statesman, orator and general, Roman copy of a Greek original, c. 2nd Century CE

Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age—specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.

Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, a contemporary historian, acclaimed him as 'the first citizen of Athens'.

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