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Pericles

Pericles

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Documented harms: exclusion law, tribute, crowding-and-plague. He did not typeset 1919. The most recent verified record is “Phidias and members of Pericles’ circle are prosecuted in the late 430s” (1 January 438), linked to the driver Judicial Independence.

Male-citizen imperial democracy as later Thucydides Englishtribute-funded stone as a shared programmeFuneral Oration as literary testimony not as a tape

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a marble democrat and not a unique author of 431 BCE. The heaviest documented costs in public English are citizenship exclusion, imperial tribute, crowding-and-plague, and later sculpture removal. The offsets are Thucydides access, Acropolis conservation, and jury-pay as a split access path. He did not file 1919. Editors and conservators did that work. Confidence is high on those pages, medium on unique war coefficients. Later Thucydides pages remain the dated record.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 4 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (0429–0462).

Causal path

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  1. PersonPericles
  2. FactJury-pay is a completed widening of who can sit, with shared authorship
  3. DriverDemocratic Resilience
  1. PersonPericles
  2. FactCimon is ostracised as Pericles’ faction thickens after Ephialtes
  3. DriverPolitical Polarization
  1. PersonPericles
  2. FactAthens completes Long Walls to Piraeus as a Periclean defensive system
  3. DriverEnergy Security

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 1 January 462 · Democratic Resilience

    Jury-pay is a completed widening of who can sit, with shared authorship

  2. 1 January 461 · Political Polarization

    Cimon is ostracised as Pericles’ faction thickens after Ephialtes

  3. 1 January 457 · Energy Security

    Athens completes Long Walls to Piraeus as a Periclean defensive system

  4. 1 January 454 · Humanitarian Access

    The Athenian Egyptian expedition ends in disaster about 454 BCE

  5. 1 January 454 · Institutional Corruption

    Athenian imperial use of League money is a completed extraction heading

  6. 31 December 450 · Protection of Minority Rights

    A citizenship law restricting descent is a completed civic-exclusion instrument

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

24 of 24 linked facts verified, drawing on 5 distinct sources (0429–0462).

Sources include Cambridge University Press, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Perseus Digital Library / Tufts.

Sources

  1. 1.Britannica — PericlesEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.Perseus — Thucydides, HistoryPerseus Digital Library / Tufts
  3. 3.Cambridge Companion to the Age of PericlesCambridge University Press
  4. 4.Perseus — Plutarch, PericlesPerseus Digital Library / Tufts
  5. 5.Britannica — Peloponnesian WarEncyclopaedia Britannica

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 5

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Pericles is an exclusion law and an imperial treasury, not a marble democrat. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman (opens in a new tab) and Thucydides Perseus at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200 (opens in a new tab) print war, plague, and speech-as-art. SEP Thucydides at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thucydides/ (opens in a new tab) warns about speeches. Cambridge Age of Pericles studies treat shared authorship. BM Parthenon sculptures at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection (opens in a new tab) are 1816 removals. UNESCO Acropolis at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/404/ (opens in a new tab) and the Acropolis Museum at https://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en (opens in a new tab) are later access. The offsets are also URLs. Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7142 (opens in a new tab) is cheap English. Plutarch Perseus https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0182 (opens in a new tab) is a later vita. Hellenic culture pages at https://www.culture.gov.gr/en/ (opens in a new tab) present the site. What the score must not say: that he wrote every decree; that the oration is a tape; that 1816 is 447; that jury-pay is a modern franchise. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on Thucydides as a public book and on the plague as received, medium on unique Megarian weight, low on unique tribute coefficients. Related people are Thucydides, Aspasia, Phidias, Cimon. 1919 is a Loeb. 1987 is UNESCO. 1816 is a removal. The useful question is which later public pages still move exclusion, tribute, and plague under his name. Keep citizenship tribute plague and Acropolis listing on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation. Hostile vita slander is not upgraded. Off-family indicator padding is refused. Confidence is high on named public pages, medium on unique coefficients, low on anecdote.

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