Death of Pericles
429 BCE · Event
The plague that his own war strategy invited inside the walls kills the man who conceived it. For thirty years Pericles had restrained the Athenians as much as led them; his successors, Thucydides writes, competed instead in telling the people what they wanted to hear. The war now belongs to the demagogues.
On these timelines: The Peloponnesian War, Ancient Greece, Master
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