Pericles
This picture is a man named Pericles. He was a leader of Athens who was responsible for rebuilding Athens following the Persian Wars. He was also a leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War, but he died of the plague that ravaged the city. He was so important that the era in which he lived (during the 5th Century B.C.) is known as the Age of Pericles. Pericles was the son of Xanthippus and Agariste. Xanthippus, a military leader in the Persian Wars, victourious at the battle at Mycale, was the son of one Ariphron and the father of another. Ariphron the 2nd was a candidate for ostracism. Xanthippus himself was ostraczied in spring 484. Agariste was from the Alcmeon family, which was accused of treachery at the Battle of Marathon. The first known public event in Pericles' life was the position "choregos" for Aeschylus' Persians in 472. This means that he funded and produced Aeachylus entry into the year's dramatic competition. This all had to deal with the 1st Public Office.