Question: Policital leadership of athens was passed to a decendant of what powerful and historically influential family?
Sentence (from "Pericles"): Pericles ( ; Greek: Περικλῆς "Periklēs", ] in Classical Attic; c. 495 – 429 BC) 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.
Relevant evidence: Yes