Pericles as Leader

• Thucydides was the main Source for Pericles
• Pericles was elected for 15 years in a row
• Pericles is seen to be leader becuase he is persuasive 


  all the people look up to him / he can change the minds of citizens with just a few words
• Pericles had to be a good speaker in order to convince and help multiple citizens to be confident but kept his higher rank by making them fearful
• he was the leader but not for power

  was appointed leader by the citizens of Athens - everyone knew what he was doing was for the best for them and city
• Pericles has high authority and high reputation
• Pericles was admired and even if democracy was set, Athens was ruled by its first citizen
• Pericles looked like famous tyrant (democracy was against tyrants)
• Got political supports by making influential friends and he commits to the people of Athens
• Wanted to be leader for poorer people because the noble people had Cimon - his rival in politics
• Used money from League to create big lavish buildings for Athens
• Pericles' reforms


  zeugitai (third wealth class) could now be archons

  payment for jurors

  reform to citizenship rules
• why was zeugitai (third wealth class) now being archons significant

  further reduced the elite nature of the Areopagus
• Why was the payment of jurors significant

  two obols a day: enough to subsist modestly

  encouraged citizens to participate in the legal process
• Why was the reform to citizenship rules significant

  both parents now had to be full Athenians to get a citizenship making it more difficult for the higher class who may have wanted to marry non-Athenians for financial and business reasons
• Ephialtes


  leader of democratic faction

  Ephialtes conspired with Themistocles to strip the Areopagus of more powers and transfer them to the boule, ecclesia and courts

  The Areopagus was now just a special court for judging murder trials and some other religious matters
• how to become a citizen in Athens

  enrolment in demes

  punishments

  instructing the ephebes: instructors

  training and duties

  payments and privileges
• demes

  make sure that people wanting to become a citizen had an athenian father and check their details