Pericles was born in Holargos in 495 BC.
In the early years, he was shy and devoted most of his time to education.
His family was his father Xanthippus and his mother Agariste.
In 461 BC, he became the ultimate statesman in Athens for almost forty years.
Pericles died in Athens in 429 BC, during the First Peloponnesian War, of plague. THE END!!!
Iliana Ch.
