worked with Ephialtes against Areopagus , 462/1

1. Assessing Perikles, part 1: Key events, 462/1-429/8 BCE worked with Ephialtes against Areopagus, 462/1 may have contributed to Kimon’s ostracism, 462/1 introduced pay for jurors, ca. 461-455 stopped invasion of Attica by bribing Sparta, 455/4 led expedition vs. Sikyon (Corinthian Gulf), 455/4 transferred Delian League funds to Athens citizenship law, 451 elected strategos every year ca. 455-431/0 Congress Decree, 449 oversaw major construction projects, 447-432 suppressed revolt on Euboea, 446; lost Megara to revolt suppressed revolt of Samos with Sophocles, 440/39 fashioned war strategy, 432/1 delivered Funeral Oration, other speeches, 432/1-429/8 prosecuted war with Sparta, 432/1-429/8 not elected 430/29; reelected 429/8 contracted plague and dies, 429/8

2. Assessing Perikles, part 2:Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65 “For as long as he was at the head of the state during the peace, he pursued a moderate and conservative policy; and in his time its greatness was at its height. When the war broke out, here also he seems to have rightly gauged the power of his country …. Pericles indeed, by his rank, ability, and known integrity, was enabled to exercise an independent control over the multitude—in short, to lead them instead of being led by them; for as he never sought power by improper means, he was never compelled to flatter them, but, on the contrary, enjoyed so high an estimation that he could afford to anger them by contradiction. Whenever he saw them unseasonably and insolently elated, he would with a word reduce them to alarm; on the other hand, if they fell victims to a panic, he could at once restore them to confidence.”

3. Assessing Perikles, part 3:Thuc. 2.65 on Perikles’ leadership: “In short … … ἐγίγνετό τε λόγῳ μὲν δημοκρατία, ἔργῳ δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ πρώτου ἀνδρὸς ἀρχή. … egignetotelogoi men demokratia, ergoi de hupotouprotouandrowarche. … what was nominally a democracy became in his hands government by the first citizen.”

4. Assessing Perikles, part 4:Plutarch on Perikles’ leadership and skills “Pericles deserves our admiration, then, not only for the sense of justice and the serene temper that he preserved amid the many crises and intense personal hatreds which surrounded him, but also for his greatness of spirit” (Plut. Per. 39) “[He possessed] moderation … uprightness … and [the] ability to endure the follies of [his] peoples and … colleagues in office [and so] rendered the very greatest service to [his] country” (Plut. Per. 2)

5. Assessing Perikles, part 5:Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 6(Nov. 14, 1787) “The celebrated Pericles, in compliance with the resentment of a prostitute [Aspasia – see Plut. Per. 24-25] at the expense of much of the blood and treasure of his countrymen, attacked, vanquished, and destroyed the city of the SAMNIANS [Samos, 440 BCE]. The same man, stimulated by private pique against the MEGARENSIANSanother nation of Greece [432], or to avoid a prosecution with which he was threatened as an accomplice of a supposed theft of the statuary Phidias[432] or to get rid of the accusations prepared to be brought against him for dissipating the funds of the state in the purchase of popularity or from a combination of all these causes, was the primitive author of that famous and fatal war, distinguished in the Grecian annals by the name of the PELOPONNESIAN war [432/1]; which, after various vicissitudes, intermissions, and renewals, terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth.”

6. Assessing Perikles, part 6:What is your assessment of Perikles, Athens and her empire?