Pericles (In Our Time)
450 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pericles (495-429BC), the statesman who dominated the politics of Athens for thirty years, the so-called Age of Pericles, when the city’s cultural life flowered, its democracy strengthened as its empire grew, and the Acropolis was adorned with the Parthenon.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 450 BCE
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)