Statesman Pericles replica, black marble base, 21 cm, 1 kg
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Perikles (about 495-429 b.o.c.), the most important statesman of Athens,
aristocratic origin, maternal from the family of the Alkmaionids, a leading Attic noble family.
Perikles was one of the strategists, first generally the generals, in Athens since 501/500 b.o.c. an elected college of ten strategists, which - under daily changing presidency - held the supreme command over army and fleet. Her term of office was one year, but re-election was possible several times. The strategists gained great influence on the whole policy and sometimes controlled the state. Pericles is a prime example of this.
He curtailed the power of the aristocracy and suspended daily allowances for the loss of earnings for the jurors and the members of the Bule, the Greek Council, the citizens received theatre money and grain donations. In his opinion, only those who had no job could gain a decisive overview in politics (he wanted to mitigate the advantage of non-working members of the nobility in the Bule).
At the height of his power, Pericles began the magnificent expansion of the Acropolis with the financial means of his allies. He himself participated in several building commissions and had intensive contact with well-known scientists and artists, including Pheidias, Sophokles, Herodotus, Anaxagoras.
According to the Greek historian Thukydides, the Pentecontaetie, the fifty-year reign of Pericles, was the most brilliant epoch in Athens' history ("by name a democracy, but in reality the reign of the first man.")
Herme exhibit of the Vatican Museum under Inv. no. 269, originally probably a work of the Greek bronze painter Kresilas about 430 BCE, Roman copy, bears the inscription "Pericles, son of Xanthippos, Athenian".
Replica reduction.
This product was added to our catalog on Sunday, March 9, 2014.