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Pericles was born on 495 BC. He was born to Xanthippus and Agariste.
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In 490 BC Athenians got its first democracy. Pericles fostered it so much that he was now called a populist.
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He began leading in 461 BC and stopped in 429 BC. That time period was called "Age of Pericles".
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He started building in 447 BC and ended in 438 BC
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Pericles married a close relative in 445 BC. But he got divorced.
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Pericles had 2 sons with his wife. They were named Paralus and Xanthippus.
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In 431 BC Athens and Sparta began a war called the Peloponnesian War and Pericles was on of the leaders.
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He held a funeral oration for people who fell in the Peloponnesian War in 430 BC.
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Pericles died in 429 BC because of a plague.
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He stopped leading in 429 BC. He stopped because of his death.
