Greece. 20 drachmas Coin L@@K, PERICLES Ancient Greek Statesman, BANK OF GREECE

Description: ***** O F F E R ***** GREECE. 20 DRACHMAI YEARS : 1976 - 1986 Greek coin in Drachmas. BANK OF GREECE GREEK COIN [ KM#: 133 ] , Diameter (mm): 29.0 Weight (g): 11.50 Composition: 92% copper - Aluminum 6% - 2% nickel Edge: Lettered [ Hellenic {Greek} Republic ] Engravers : Th. Papagiannis - L. Orfanos [ Greek Democracy ] It is the coin : PERICLES - Ancient Greek Statesman Description: PERICLES (495 bC - 429 bC) was an Athenian statesman, so influential in Athenian history that the period of his power is called the Age of Pericles. Under Pericles' leadership Athens became a great center of literature and art. GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC. =================================Pericles (Greek : Περικλῆς, Periklēs, "surrounded by glory"; c. 495 – 429 BC) was the ost prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens during theGolden Age specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles", though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century. Pericles promoted the arts and literature; it is principally through his efforts that Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural center of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to the people. Pericles also fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist Personal Life Pericles, following Athenian custom, was first married to one of his closest relatives, with whom he had two sons, Paralus and Xanthippus, but around 445 BC, Pericles divorced his wife. He offered her to another husband, with the agreement of her male relatives. The name of his first wife is not known; the only information about her is that she was the wife of Hipponicus, before being married to Pericles, and the mother of Callias from this first marriage. "For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity." Pericles' Funeral Oration as recorded by Thucydides The woman he really adored was Aspasia of Miletus. She became Pericles' mistress and they began to live together as if they were married. This relationship aroused many reactions and even Pericles' own son, Xanthippus, who had political ambitions, did not hesitate to slander his father. Nonetheless, these persecutions did not undermine Pericles' morale, although he had to burst into tears in order to protect his beloved Aspasia when she was accused of corrupting Athenian society. His greatest personal tragedy was the death of his sister and of both his legitimate sons, Xanthippus and Paralus, all affected by the epidemic, a calamity he never managed to overcome. Just before his death, the Athenians allowed a change in the law of 451 BC that made his half-Athenian son with Aspasia, Pericles the Younger, a citizen and legitimate heir a decision all the more striking in consideration that Pericles himself had proposed the law confining citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides ================================= Condition: See the scan (pictures), shape your own opinion You will take that you see in photographs of sale. The price is for each coin. ================================= Payment instructions · Paypal prefered. 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