This leader first came to prominence for his attacks on the Areopagus, particularly for his prosecution and later ostracism of his rival, Cimon.
This leader first came to prominence for his attacks on the Areopagus, particularly for his prosecution and later ostracism of his rival, Cimon. As strategos, however, he was unsuccessful in campaigns against Sicyon, home of his mother Agariste. One of his many building projects was the long walls connecting his city to the port of Piraeus. His patriotic speech extolling the dead and urging his city to continue its fight against its southern rival was recorded by Thucydides as this man's "funeral oration." FTP who was this Athenian statesman at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War who initiated the building of the Parthenon?
This leader first came to prominence for his attacks on the Areopagus, particularly for his prosecution and later ostracism of his rival, Cimon.
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