INCITE

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others" - Pericles In the glorious and Ancient Greek city-state of Athens (495BC), a noblewoman named Agariste dreamt that she would give birth to a lion. On one fateful night, her son was born; Pericles, a lion made flesh. This heroic age of 5 th -century Athens BC, predicated on the values of glory, honour and loyalty, produced historical titans; Hippocrates, Sophocles and Democritus, to name a few. Yet it was Pericles ‘The Olympian’, through guile and fortitude, that carved himself into the history books and produced, what we now know as – The Periclean Age. He ruled as a Strategos, an elected military general who held power in Athens, for 29 years straight. To leave Athens as superior to all other nations was his aim. Through social reform, ruthless military leadership and grand building projects, including the Parthenon upon the Acropolis; Pericles would provide justification