# Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored

Date: 430

## The fact

In 430 BCE the Athenian demos deposed [Pericles](/people/pericles) from the strategia and fined him, then restored him. The dated punishment is not the 429 plague death and not the Funeral Oration as later prose. Pericles’s documented role is: After plague and invasion the demos fined and briefly deposed him, then re-elected him. Voters struck; he remained the policy’s face; he did not uniquely invent accountability. Do not twin this with the plague-death row. A fine is not a death. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Pericles's documented role is: After plague and invasion the demos fined and briefly deposed him, then re-elected him. Voters struck; he remained the policy’s face; he did not uniquely invent accountability.

## Context

Invaded fields, plague, and unnamed voters already structure the file. A fine is not unique authorship of the war. Later Plutarch’s sums are not a treasury tape. Named others on the file: The demos as punishers, unnamed fellow-strategoi, and later Thucydides as carrier share the heading. The public setting is the file around -0430-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored. The setting of Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored is the public file around -0430-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the plague-death row. A fine is not a death. Mixed effects of Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Thucydides independently date a 430 fine-and-deposition as distinct from 429 death. Official: Britannica — Pericles, deposition and fine 430 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Thucydides, Pericles fined (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200; Perseus Digital Library). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Pericles, deposition and fine 430 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Thucydides, Pericles fined (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200; Perseus Digital Library).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Pericles, deposition and fine 430 BCE (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening polarisation path: a wartime popular punishment of the leading strategos. Complex shared vote. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated popular punishment polarised wartime Athens around one strategos without ending his policy. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 430 deposition and fine, then restoration. Not established: a unique drachma total as a welfare series. Established: a sourced public record of Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored under -0430-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored under -0430-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Pericles is deposed from the strategia and fined, then restored. Naming Pericles does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0430-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Pericles: https://factrail.ai/people/pericles

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/per-fined-430